Racecraft is the toolkit that makes racist treatment appear logically grounded in race.
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). — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 520
Categorization
- DEFINE: Choudhury’s operationalization of the Fields sisters’ ‘racecraft’ for the Islam-as-race thesis.
- XREF: The theoretical pivot for comparing against Aziz; Aziz historicizes, Choudhury tools it. — connects to: Racism deploys one set of racecraft tools against every subordinated minority — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 455; Racecraft is a reusable tool racism repurposes to racialize new groups. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 480; Racecraft is the discursive machinery that makes anti-Muslim racism seem rational — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 411 (+10 more)
Broader Connections
- Racism operates as a repository of techniques and logics, not just functional practices.
#corroborates(0.90) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 892 - Racecraft is the discursive machinery that makes anti-Muslim racism seem rational
#expands(0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 411 - Tools of racecraft honed on Blacks and Native Americans get retargeted at Muslims
#expands(0.80) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 41 - Racism operates through routine practices that reproduce hierarchical structures
#expands(0.80) - Naturalizing racial categories reproduces the racism it aims to escape.
#expands(0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 290 - Racecraft frames race as the cause and racism as its effect, hiding the reverse
#complicates(0.75) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 520 - Racecraft inverts discourse so victims’ identities become the problem rather than racism.
#expands(0.75) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 520 - Racial logic now operates through coded, unspeakable terms
#complicates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 280 - Racecraft has material dimensions because segregation itself enacts race.
#complicates(0.70) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 328 - Racecraft’s real function is preserving racial hierarchy
#complicates(0.70) - Race is a medium that transforms contingent attributes into supposed essences
#complicates(0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 106