In-group familial identity is built on negating the racial other

Evidence

Underlying racialism, not unlike nationalism, is an abstract presumption of familialism. As Nadia Abu El-Haj remarks in her revealing interrogation of genealogy in the wake of the human genome project, membership criteria “in family, nation and political society are always entangled.” The traits or characteristics I take myself to share with those I consider like me conjure an abstract familial connectivity. That I am like them, or they like me, must mean that we are familially connected, so to speak. But familiality, by extension, is necessarily conceived, if often silently, by the negation of (racial) otherness, of the differentiated and disconnected, the unlikened and unrelated. Note here the paradoxical relatedness of the racially denied, the constitutive connectedness of the disconnected, the manufactured fabric of familial distinction. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 68

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial identity rests on an abstract presumption of familial connectedness. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 68; Racial stereotypes serve the dominant group’s identity needs; Shared traits falsely conjure an abstract familial connectivity with racial others defined as negation (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• White racial identity strengthens through contrast with minority out-groups #corroborates (0.95) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1119
• Shared traits falsely conjure an abstract familial connectivity with racial others defined as negation #corroborates (0.92)
• Racial identity rests on an abstract presumption of familial connectedness. #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 68
• Racial identity arises as a negative product of oppression #corroborates (0.85)
• Racialization assigns visibly non-white people into a collective identity they may not hold #expands (0.80)
• New racial identities can form in response to racism itself #corroborates (0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 51
• Racial stereotypes serve the dominant group’s identity needs #complicates (0.75)
• Naturalizing one’s own cultural identity drives racialization of social life #complicates (0.75)
• Race fixes status by ancestry while ethnicity permits negotiated identity #complicates (0.75) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 391