Racecraft frames race as the cause and racism as its effect, hiding the reverse

Evidence

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pinpoints the core racecraft inversion that defines Choudhury’s whole analytic apparatus — race as apparent cause, racism as hidden real engine.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Racecraft is the discursive machinery that makes anti-Muslim racism seem rational — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 411; Racism creates races through practice, and the practice hides itself as its own evidence — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 322; Racist ideas function as propaganda for racial discrimination, not its cause — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1256 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism creates races through practice, and the practice hides itself as its own evidence #corroborates (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 322
• Race is the conceptual form through which the practice of racism operates #corroborates (0.95)
• Racism predates anti-Blackness and produces each distinct race. #corroborates (0.95)
• Race emerges from prior racist practice, not from perceived difference #corroborates (0.92) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 32
• Racist ideas function as propaganda for racial discrimination, not its cause #corroborates (0.90) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1256
• Races are produced by racism, not by biology #corroborates (0.90) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 76