Postmodernity’s defining symbols pair surface civility with buried racial destruction.

Evidence

If there is a condition of postmodernity, here perhaps lie its prime symbols, if not most naked expressions: destruction just beneath civility, civilization against jihad, fear entangled with threat, racial death behind the conceptual calls for the death of race. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 184

Categorization

• DEFINE: Goldberg glosses the ‘condition of postmodernity’ through its prime symbolic manifestations.