Race quietly continues to structure membership even where racial talk is silenced.

Evidence

Civil society has various ways to delimit the status of its members, if not of membership itself. What I have characterized as “born again racism” reveals that race continues to serve as a principal modality of such delimitation, even as racial reference is officially silenced. More forcefully still, publicly charging racism is increasingly considered as less than civil. … The erosion of civility begins to render that social violence naked. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 290

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reader’s interest in the contact/institution gap: civility’s policing of racial speech is itself a mechanism that lets everyday interracial contact (civil discourse) coexist with unaddressed institutional race-based exclusion. — connects to: Race still delimits civil membership even when racial speech is silenced — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 290; Race still delimits civil-society status even while racial talk is officially silenced; Racism persists as structure, not merely as bad individuals’ stereotypes. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 316 (+6 more)
• DEFINE: ‘Born again racism’ is defined here as the persistence of race as a membership-delimiting modality even as explicit racial reference is officially silenced.

Broader Connections

• Race still delimits civil membership even when racial speech is silenced #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 290
• Race still delimits civil-society status even while racial talk is officially silenced #corroborates (1.00)
• Recasting race as ethnicity allows a racial hierarchy to persist unnoticed. #exemplifies (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3199
• Racism persists as structure, not merely as bad individuals’ stereotypes. #expands (0.85) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 316
• When overt racism is socially shed, its institutional force persists across all mapped regions #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1906
• Racism persists without explicit racial language, operating through denial and apology #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1867
• Racism operates even without deliberate hatred #expands (0.80) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 125
• Racism persists but has shifted from blatant to unconscious subtle forms #expands (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 143
• Racism persists even where formal segregation laws have been abolished #qualifies (0.80)