Racial democracy granted only virtual, unreachable belonging to the non-white

Evidence

Racial democracy offered the possibility of belonging and social participation; its definition as racial, however, indicated that they could only ever be partial, limited, always begrudging and incomplete. Better perhaps than not or never, but so nebulous as to virtualize the possibilities, making them ever beyond concrete grasp. Motivating and exasperating, seemingly possible but never quite within reach. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1219 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial democracy’s promises are always partial and never fully attainable — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1219; Whiteness grants presumptive belonging that race-neutral legal status does not — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 906

Broader Connections

• Racial democracy’s promises are always partial and never fully attainable #expands (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1219