Racecraft naturalizes hierarchy so the subordinated consent to their own subordination

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

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. … This is not to suggest that the experiences among groups are the same but rather to demonstrate how the racecraft is the same and has the same purpose. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 461

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crisply defines how the author applies Gramscian hegemony to racecraft — the heart of her racecraft-as-consent argument.
• XREF: Directly invokes the Fields sisters’ racecraft concept and Gramscian hegemony; compare with Aziz’s Racial Muslim account of how religious difference gets produced as racial difference through law and state practice. — connects to: Acceptable minority identity requires denying the racism one faces; Durable domination requires both state force and internalized consent — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 465; The same racecraft tools operate against every subordinated minority across centuries — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 455 (+10 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the same racecraft recurs across different target groups, even where experiences differ, is the theoretical hinge Choudhury needs to argue Islam is ‘now a race’ without collapsing Muslims’ history into Black Americans’.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 461
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Racism becomes hegemonic when subordinated groups consent to naturalized hierarchy. #corroborates (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 461
• Subordinated racial groups actively participate in creating and maintaining hierarchy #corroborates (0.87) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3583
• Social hierarchy is maintained by dominants and subordinates cooperatively #corroborates (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3212
• Benevolent paternalism can coopt minority-group members into their own subordination #exemplifies (0.82) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 140
• Race naturalizes the magical, constructed character of state power #expands (0.78)
• Race naturalizes state power by presenting created social order as given and teleological #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740