Racecraft’s real function is preserving racial hierarchy

Evidence

The discursive strategies make racism justifiable, logical, normal, and commonsensical. In other words, they are used to make racism hegemonic in the Gramscian sense where the subordinated consent to their subordination because of the naturalization of the hierarchy. Moreover, racecraft makes it appear as though racial groups exist in nature and are real. But as noted above, while race is not real, the practices of racecraft and the ideology of racism are very real. The discursive strategies have material effects in controlling behavior, opportunity, and even life and death. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 461 (#expands, via linked claim)

To convince society that the double standards used to subordinate groups are based on race (something that seems to exist) and not racism (a very real ideology) requires racecraft (a set of tools that make the treatment appear logical). … The discursive racecraft used to legitimate both panics is very much the same. Reading these texts, one understands that the racecraft shifts the focus to make Islam and antiracism the “real problem” not the racism that Muslims and Blacks face. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 520 (#expands, via linked claim)

That race is a marker, an expression, indeed, constitutive of modern relations of power makes it especially amenable to the expression of state power, one might say, to the central defining condition of modern statehood per se. Through race there is displaced from the modern state, covered over, the raw expression of state power. Such power, nothing more than created, is projected through racial terms as the given order of things, seemingly intractable and so established by natural or teleological law. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racecraft fuses religious, gendered, and appearance cues into a single subordinated identity — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 100; Racecraft naturalizes hierarchy so the subordinated consent to their own subordination — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 461; Subordinated racial groups actively participate in creating and maintaining hierarchy — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3583 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Racecraft naturalizes hierarchy so the subordinated consent to their own subordination #expands (0.92) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 461
• Racecraft frames race as the cause and racism as its effect, hiding the reverse #expands (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 520
• Race naturalizes state power by presenting created hierarchies as given order #corroborates (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740
• Racecraft is the discursive machinery that makes anti-Muslim racism seem rational #exemplifies (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 411
• Bureaucratized race thinking sustains hierarchy without hostile intent #expands (0.82)
• Celebrating racial difference can itself reproduce racial hierarchies #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2772
• The Hamitic curse mythology legitimized racial hierarchy in European thought #exemplifies (0.80) — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 673
• Subordinated racial groups actively participate in creating and maintaining hierarchy #qualifies (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3583
• The civilizational standard quietly re-encoded race as economic capacity #exemplifies (0.77) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 83
• Polygenesis ranked races hierarchically with Aryans as the supreme creators #exemplifies (0.76) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 526
• Racialized structures distribute resources and access by race #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1828
• Racial configurations both mask and mitigate class exploitation in unknowable ways #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 127