Race and ethnicity are mutually converting categories caught in a double demand

Evidence

Unlike Judaism, Jewishness had to be, emphatically, stronger than human will and human creative potential. It had to be located at the level of natural law (the kind of law that ought to be discovered, and then taken account of and exploited for human benefit, but which cannot be wished away, tampered with, or neglected – at least, nut without terrible consequences). … The product of conversion – be it religious or cultural – is not the change, but loss of quality. On the other side of conversion lurks a void, not another identity. The convert loses his identity without acquiring anything instead. Man is before he acts; nothing he does may change what he is. This is, roughly, the philosophical essence of racism. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 179 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hybridity is cultural combination free of racial referents; Racial difference can be constructed as antagonism within a single exploited class; Differential incorporation of labor sectors systematically coincides with racist and ethnic segmentary features (+7 more)

Related

• Racism locates identity beyond will so conversion yields loss not change (similarity 0.86)
• Racial difference can be constructed as antagonism within a single exploited class (similarity 0.81)
• Claiming a new racial identity unravels when ancestry is revealed, except through passing. (similarity 0.80)
• Race and ethnicity are analytically distinct categories, not interchangeable terms (similarity 0.80)
• The race-ethnicity distinction is not a culture-versus-nature divide (similarity 0.79)
• Racism combines inferiority-based and difference-based philosophies that coexist rather than alternate (similarity 0.79)
• Conceptions of ethnicity evolved separately from categories of race (similarity 0.79)
• Differential incorporation of labor sectors systematically coincides with racist and ethnic segmentary features (similarity 0.79)
• Racial identity is a dynamic bricolage, not a fixed biological given. (similarity 0.79)
• Ethnicity need not be essentialist or hierarchical in the way race categories are (similarity 0.78)
• Race can ethnicize and ethnicity can racialize, generating twin political demands (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Racism locates identity beyond will so conversion yields loss not change #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 179
• Accepting European-imposed separation drives the black subject to seek elevation within a racial hierarchy #expands (0.80)
• Sociological approaches insist race and ethnicity have autonomous, non-reducible effects #complicates (0.78)
• Hybridity is cultural combination free of racial referents #qualifies (0.75)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Racial difference can be constructed as antagonism within a single exploited class #expands (0.72)
• Differential incorporation of labor sectors systematically coincides with racist and ethnic segmentary features #expands (0.72)
• Economic and sociological paradigms of race define themselves through mutual correction #complicates (0.70)
• Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other #expands (0.70)