Racecraft has material dimensions because segregation itself enacts race.
Evidence
Moreover, racecraft is not just about discourse. As pointed out above, segregation was racecraft itself, providing evidence of the existence of race (the action is purportedly prompted by race). As such, racecraft has material dimensions. The final section describes the discrimination against Black Americans and Muslims in the context of residential property and larger property projects in predominantly white suburbs to show the commonalities. The same material racecraft that was invented as anti-Blackness has been repurposed and directed at Muslims. Many have already written about the use of racial profiling as one such example; this article offers the example of property discrimination. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 328
Categorization
- recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
- XREF: connects to: Racism creates races through practice, and the practice hides itself as its own evidence — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 322; Segregation functioned as ongoing racial control rather than total separation; Race is the conceptual form through which the practice of racism operates (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Segregation functioned as ongoing racial control rather than total separation
#expands(0.85) - Race is a medium that transforms contingent attributes into supposed essences
#expands(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 106 - Race is the conceptual form through which the practice of racism operates
#expands(0.78) - Race is a product of racism, so groups are racialized rather than racial.
#expands(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 107 - Race functions as an organizing glue binding national unity to racial division
#expands(0.72) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 85