Racial categories were imposed retroactively by administrators, literally reclassifying people.
Evidence
Racialization is rooted in relationships of power that are institutionalized. Racializing bodies serves those who wield power in society and therefore is constantly changing and mutating based on the interests of those in power. This explains why some groups of people are vilified at one point in time over another. For example, the belief that Syrians are potential terrorists and dangerous to Western nations is perpetuated when the government wants to limit Syrian refugees from entering the United States at a time when millions of Syrians have been forced out of their country due to internal wars and political conflicts. However, as I describe in chapter 1, Syrians were once treated like white ethnics in the United States partially because of their skin tone. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 86 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Racial categories were administratively imposed on people formerly counted as white in the 1760s; Racialization shifts with the political interests of those in power — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 86; Bureaucratic classification itself creates subjects who petition for reclassification — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 369
Related
- Racialization shifts with the political interests of those in power (similarity 0.86)
- Theoretical choices about race determine which political strategies appear valid (similarity 0.81)
- Racial categories were administratively imposed rather than biologically fixed (similarity 0.80)
- South Asian racial classification has been fluid and contested in the US. (similarity 0.80)
- Racial classifications shifted religiously, deeming Ottoman subjects Asian not White. (similarity 0.79)
- The Villatte affair was racialized as mulatto-versus-black rather than factional competition (similarity 0.79)
- The US government reclassified Syrians from Caucasian to Mongoloid within a decade (similarity 0.78)
- Bureaucratic classification itself creates subjects who petition for reclassification (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Racial categories were administratively imposed on people formerly counted as white in the 1760s
#expands(0.85) - Racialization shifts with the political interests of those in power
#expands(0.75) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 86