In immigrant England, hybrid names conceal ongoing white resentment.

Evidence

Thus from a Mixture of all kinds began, That Het’rogeneous Thing, An Englishman: In eager Rapes, and furious Lust begot, Betwixt a Painted Britton and a Scot: Whose gend’ring Offspring quickly learnt to bow, And yoke their Heifers to the Roman Plough: From whence a Mongrel half-bred Race there came, With neither Name nor Nation, Speech or Fame. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 14 (#complicates, via linked claim)

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. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 68 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White English identity formed simultaneously with othering of domestic and colonial populations; Muslim names alone can racialize phenotypically white people — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 91; English national identity descends from a mongrel mixed ancestry — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 14 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• English national identity descends from a mongrel mixed ancestry #complicates (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 14
• Claiming a new racial identity unravels when ancestry is revealed, except through passing. #complicates (0.72)
• Racial identity rests on an abstract presumption of familial connectedness. #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 68