Industrial clustering creates a self-reinforcing cycle that masks underlying racism as market process.

Evidence

The main argument of the first two parts of this article is that racism first produces racial identities and then the appearance of real races through racecraft – neither the identities, nor the races, are fixed or unchanging. … As a result, it is entirely possible to conceive of the creation of Muslims as a racially subordinated group through Islamophobia and the emergence of Islam as a race. … Islam, as a religion of color, is made racially meaningful against a white European Christianity. That meaning-making and race-making is racecraft. While the Fields’ articulation that racecraft is akin to witchcraft concentrates on ideology, it is worth underscoring that both racecraft and witchcraft were practices not just ideologies. Hence, craft. Racecraft plays a part in hiding racism. … Rather than race as the cause for the segregation of Blacks in the South, the segregation itself is also part of the racecraft. As Barbara Fields suggests, race produces evidence of itself. The crop failure is the evidence of witchcraft. The segregation is the evidence of Blackness as a race. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 322 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Where racism still exists, it is represented as the work of extremist individuals and organizations, psychologically unstable, monstrous individuals, who castrate and drag black bodies for miles; as the work of a tiny minority, the rotten apples in the police force; or as the unintended consequences of organizational features and policies. These are the remnants of earlier eras and the source of outrage and condemnation by all Americans when they happen today. Even more, they have been joined by other racists, so called “reverse racists.” According to this interpretation, the main racists of today are blacks, or other people of color, and the victims are whites, or other people of color. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1817 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Expulsive zoning by biased officials set the neutral criteria later used to justify siting.; Stage-by-stage siting analysis can reveal racism when discrete decisions look neutral.; Convent hosts the most Cancer Alley plants yet has its highest unemployment. (+4 more)

Related

• Stage-by-stage siting analysis can reveal racism when discrete decisions look neutral. (similarity 0.85)
• Racism creates races through practice, and the practice hides itself as its own evidence (similarity 0.84)
• Racism gets reorganized by each mode of production rather than being constant (similarity 0.81)
• Modern racism is framed as individual deviance rather than systemic structure (similarity 0.80)
• Racism operates as a changing process rather than a fixed project (similarity 0.80)
• Racism is real but race is only an idea manufactured by racist practice. (similarity 0.79)
• Racecraft has material dimensions because segregation itself enacts race. (similarity 0.79)
• Racecraft frames race as the cause and racism as its effect, hiding the reverse (similarity 0.79)
• Racism generates race through repeated practice, not difference perception. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Racism creates races through practice, and the practice hides itself as its own evidence #corroborates (0.82) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 322
• Racism operates through routine practices that reproduce hierarchical structures #corroborates (0.80)
• Modern racism is framed as individual deviance rather than systemic structure #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1817
• Everyday interracial socializing coexists with unaddressed institutional and labor market discrimination #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 857