Neoliberalism functions as a response to white status threat.

Evidence

Neoliberalism accordingly can be read as a response to this concern about the impending impotence of whiteness. Neoliberalism is committed to privatizing property, utilities, and social programs, to reducing state expenditures and bureaucracy, increasing efficiencies, and to individual freedom from state regulation. As the state was seen increasingly to support black employment, to increase expenditures on black education, and to increase regulation to force compliance, white neoconservatives found neoliberal commitments increasingly relevant to their interests. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1764

Categorization

• XREF: This is close to the threatened-privilege anticipatory status-threat mechanism the reader is testing — a clear instance of dominance responding to perceived impending loss. — connects to: Neoliberalism functioned as a defense against perceived erosion of white privilege — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1764; Neoliberal discourse encourages racism without being itself racist; Neoliberalism redefined affirmative action as the racism it was designed to oppose — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1762 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism functioned as a defense against perceived erosion of white privilege #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1764
• Neoliberal discourse encourages racism without being itself racist #qualifies (0.80)
• Neoliberalism redefined affirmative action as the racism it was designed to oppose #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1762
• Neoliberalism displaces racial markers onto marketable and consumable identity conditions. #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1606
• Exposure to information about racial demographic change raises Whites’ status threat and conservatism #corroborates (0.80) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 16
• Perceived status threat drives white opposition to welfare spending #corroborates (0.80) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1158
• Contemporary racism and neoliberalism are mutually constitutive forces needing a new analytic vocabulary #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 27
• Perceived threat to White privilege poorly predicts racial policy views. #contradicts (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2174
• Ethnic identification, not party affiliation, moderates Whites’ threat response. #qualifies (0.75) — Brenda Major and Alison Blodorn and Gregory Major Blascovich, The threat of increasing diversity, 21
• White power rhetoric reframes whites as a threatened global demographic minority #exemplifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2581
• States under racial neoliberalism mutate from welfare providers into prophylactic defenders against perceived threats. #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 472
• Neoliberal globalization privatizes institutional racisms stripped of explicit labels #expands (0.75)
• Colorblindness and neoliberalism rose together as mutually reinforcing hegemonies #complicates (0.70) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 210