Race and racism cannot be fully separated historically or politically
Evidence
Though there is a clear conceptual distinction we must mark between race and racism, they are deeply connected conceptually and politically. It may be impossible always β ever? β to sustain the distinction historically and politically. The weight of race is at once a racist weight. A different, if related, metaphor may be equally revealing. Race is the glove in which the titanic, the weighty, hand of racism ο¬ts. The cloth may be velvet but it is studded with spikes and soaked in blood. Antiracism, it seems, is at once antiracialism, at least to the degree of de-spiking the glove. Whether the glove, once defanged, can be washed of its bloody legacy remains an open question. β David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 82
Though there is a clear conceptual distinction we must mark between race and racism, they are deeply connected conceptually and politically. It may be impossible always β ever? β to sustain the distinction historically and politically. The weight of race is at once a racist weight. β¦ Race is the glove in which the titanic, the weighty, hand of racism ο¬ts. The cloth may be velvet but it is studded with spikes and soaked in blood. Antiracism, it seems, is at once antiracialism, at least to the degree of de-spiking the glove. Whether the glove, once defanged, can be washed of its bloody legacy remains an open question. β David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 82
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces the race/racism distinction and the glove metaphor as a conceptual framework.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim β David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections onβ¦, 82