Race never functioned as a unifying force in American national identity as religion did
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- Racism and hostility intensify rather than erase traditional identifications. (similarity 0.87)
- Religion unified American identity while race divided it (similarity 0.84)
- Race persisted as epistemic currency even after its formal abolition as legal criterion (similarity 0.84)
- National identity transition moments breed new exclusionary racisms (similarity 0.83)
- Race served as an ideological guide where geography provided no unity (similarity 0.83)
- Race in America must be understood as involving religion and immigrant groups (similarity 0.83)
- Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form (similarity 0.83)
- Economic structure is necessary but not sufficient to explain race relations (similarity 0.83)
- Race and ethnicity function as forms of collective social identity (similarity 0.82)
- Anti-essentialist analysis of race depends on prior anti-essentialism developed through class (similarity 0.82)
- Race functions as an organizing glue binding national unity to racial division (similarity 0.82)
- Race and racism must be distinguished analytically and politically (similarity 0.82)
- Race and ethnicity cannot be understood apart from historical context. (similarity 0.82)
- Racism effectively mobilized uprooted urban masses outside the nation-state (similarity 0.81)
- Race functioned as an organizing principle tying bodies to social statuses (similarity 0.81)