Nineteenth-century State racism reutilized older religious anti-Semitism for biological exclusion

Evidence

It is at this point that anti-Semitism develops, picking up, using, and taking from the old form of anti-Semitism all the energy— and a whole mythology—which had until then been devoted solely to the political analysis of the internal war, or the social war. At this point the Jews came to be seen as—and were described as—a race that was present within all races, and whose biologically dangerous character necessitated a certain number of mechanisms of rejection and exclusion on the part of the State. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 105

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how State racism converts a prior religious discourse into a biological mechanism of exclusion—key vocabulary for the Islamophobia toolkit.
• XREF: Connects to biopolitics/necropolitics and to how modern bureaucratic rationality pathologizes and expels populations; directly the reader’s stated foundations module. — connects to: Nineteenth-century scientific racism supplied latent Orientalism’s biological grounding; Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 167; Racism scholarship long confined itself to biological black-white and antisemitic models — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 583 (+7 more)

Related

• Nineteenth-century scientific racism supplied latent Orientalism’s biological grounding (similarity 0.87)
• Religious anti-Semitism need not enter the state-racism genealogy until the nineteenth century (similarity 0.85)
• Racism scholarship long confined itself to biological black-white and antisemitic models (similarity 0.85)
• Racism scholarship’s biologistic paradigms long excluded anti-Muslim discrimination as unclassifiable (similarity 0.82)
• Soviet State racism turned the class enemy into a biological threat (similarity 0.80)
• Modern scientific racism displaced religion from the race concept. (similarity 0.80)
• Anti-Muslim and antisemitic persecution became racism when conversion was deemed biologically impossible. (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural racism locks groups into immutable genealogies as biological racism did (similarity 0.80)
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism are racism’s two registers, not separate systems (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural racism locks groups into immutable genealogies just as biological race did. (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural and biological racisms cannot be sharply separated discursively (similarity 0.79)
• Hostility to British Muslims predates modern biological racism and parallels antisemitism (similarity 0.79)
• The move from biological to cultural racism lets prejudice be renamed cultural critique (similarity 0.78)
• Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other (similarity 0.78)
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism combine rather than replace each other. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Cultural and biological racisms cannot be sharply separated discursively #corroborates (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 395
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism are racism’s two registers, not separate systems #corroborates (0.80)
• Ideologically rationalized bigotry historically recurs against successive target groups #exemplifies (0.78) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 30