Post-Cold-War racism showed class analysis alone cannot explain structural inequality

Evidence

In the last decade of the twentieth century, as virulent movements of nationalism and racism emerged in the “old countries” of Europe, especially in the wake of collapsing communist regimes, psychoanalytic ideas became increasingly central to attempts at making sense of these “postcolonial” or “postmodern” forms (Rattansi, 1998). The notion that racism (or nationalism) could be understood as simply a displaced - and hence “false” - type of class consciousness no longer stood up once it became clear that class - at least in its Marxian sense - was no longer a sufficient concept to explain either the persistence or the transformation of structural inequalities in these societies (Goldberg, 1993). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1357

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-cold-war racism defeated Marxian class-based explanations; Working-class racism resists analysis under homogeneous conceptions of ideology — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 142; Structural racism operates beyond individual intentions and prejudice — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 42 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-cold-war racism defeated Marxian class-based explanations #corroborates (0.95)
• Class-focused analysis of apartheid neglected racist institutions outside the capitalist nexus #corroborates (0.85)
• Racism operates as class disadvantage and exclusion #contradicts (0.82)
• Structural racism operates beyond individual intentions and prejudice #corroborates (0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 42
• Race alone is not a unifying force without class analysis #qualifies (0.80) — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 22
• Race-only analysis omits the class positioning shared with poor whites #qualifies (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 251
• Racial inequality does not rest only with discriminating individuals #corroborates (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 155
• Racism structures dominant public spheres rather than merely appearing within them #corroborates (0.80)
• Working-class racism resists analysis under homogeneous conceptions of ideology #qualifies (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 142
• Abolishing official race language can mask persisting racialized structural inequalities as class inequalities. #corroborates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1603
• The end of formal racial subordination eliminated the structural basis for blatant biological racism #expands (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3420
• Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form #qualifies (0.75)
• Racism, gender, and class interconnections defy grand theoretical specification #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3005