Minoritized groups channel racialized death-mediation into markedly different survival strategies

Evidence

Different minoritized groups react to this mediation in different ways. For Jews, the “never again” articulated by Emil Fackenheim as the 614th biblical commandment internalizes a vigilant aggressivity expressed as survival at almost any cost. Radical Muslim political theology rationalizes the violence of its response to what Philomena Essed revealingly identifies as humiliation in terms of the lure of liberatory reward in the afterlife. Native Americans suffer the liquidation of their interests first in the melancholy of disaffected sociality and in some regional states more recently in the turn to conventional electoral politics. Blacks respond to their persistent minoritization and repeated (often spotlighted) invisibilization variously by a turn to an insistent visibility of cultural performance, sometimes celebrating a counter-violence in the wake of a persistent challenge to self-confidence, by racially driven political organizing, by assimilating or integrating as best as conditions allow, or (as in the case of Latin America) by an effort at amalgamating through mixing, all with decidedly mixed results. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1838

Different minoritized groups react to this mediation in different ways. For Jews, the “never again” articulated by Emil Fackenheim as the 614th biblical commandment internalizes a vigilant aggressivity expressed as survival at almost any cost. Radical Muslim political theology rationalizes the violence of its response to what Philomena Essed revealingly identifies as humiliation in terms of the lure of liberatory reward in the afterlife. Native Americans suffer the liquidation of their interests first in the melancholy of disaffected sociality and in some regional states more recently in the turn to conventional electoral politics. Blacks respond to their persistent minoritization and repeated (often spotlighted) invisibilization variously by a turn to an insistent visibility of cultural performance, sometimes celebrating a counter-violence in the wake of a persistent challenge to self-confidence, by racially driven political organizing, by assimilating or integrating as best as conditions allow, or (as in the case of Latin America) by an effort at amalgamating through mixing, all with decidedly mixed results. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1838

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete survey of how each group’s response to racial death differs — useful comparative mapping of survival strategies.
• XREF: Provides concrete cross-group comparison — Jews, Muslims, Native Americans, Blacks — useful raw material for the reader’s test of whether threatened-privilege mechanisms replicate across identity axes. — connects to: Minoritized groups facing death-tinged identity develop divergent coping responses — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1838; Any group defined as a racial object finds its identity mediated through death — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1837
• QUESTION: These are survival reactions among the subordinated; does the threatened-privilege mechanism run symmetrically in the dominant direction?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1838