Presumed racial knowledge fabricates character and bears race’s stigma

Evidence

But familiarity, the idiom would have it, similarly breeds contempt. Contempt in this case, we might ask, for whom? And to what end(s)? For those thrown together with one in some way by circumstance – by the very demands of social constitution, if I am right – and whom one accordingly presumes to know, in character and habit, condition and behavior, prospect and limit. In short, ethnoracially. It is the presumption of knowledge, the fabrication of character for those one knows at best partially, in both senses of the term, which both bears and bares the stigma of race in these instances. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 71

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘presumption of knowledge about those thrown together by social constitution’ is exactly the contact-without-institutional-change gap the reading purpose tracks — intimate social exposure coexisting with fabricated character judgments. — connects to: Presumed knowledge of others fabricated by race enables exploitation and violence — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 71; Philological reduction of language legitimates claims connecting race to mind and character.

Broader Connections

• Philological reduction of language legitimates claims connecting race to mind and character. #corroborates (0.85)
• Presumed knowledge of others fabricated by race enables exploitation and violence #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 71