Race when invoked to categorize humans almost invariably operates as threat and disruption

Evidence

As an abstract conception of social categorization, then, race perhaps need not be exercised to exclusionary, debilitating, and humiliating ends against those taken not to belong to the designated privileged group. But historically it has been invoked throughout its half-millennial histories to these ends. It carries the prospect if not the promise of violence with it. It follows historically that when invoked to mark the human, race almost invariably operates as threat, as pernicious, as disruptive. Racism, of course, always incorporates race within it as basis of conceptual differentiation. In that sense, racisms can be said to order race, to require and to fabricate it. But the related point I am pushing here, the one to which the reach of arguments throughout the book draws, is the complementary one, at once simpler and more obscure. Race, in short, is never far from racism. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1842

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dominant-race domination is sustained by threat invested in the subjugated — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1504; Race society stems from fright at humans who must not be acknowledged as fellow-men — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 501; Urban heterogeneity transformed race into an internal threat requiring spatial controls — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 360 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Dominant-race domination is sustained by threat invested in the subjugated #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1504
• Race society stems from fright at humans who must not be acknowledged as fellow-men #corroborates (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 501
• The threat of dissimulation requires reading race from bodily appearance. #expands (0.73)
• Urban heterogeneity transformed race into an internal threat requiring spatial controls #exemplifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 360
• Racial categorization of the same person varies by time, place, and context #qualifies (0.71)