Racial domination is sustained by terror of Black agency and desire for oneness.

Evidence

What he fears most is that the song is not about ‘singing black folks into heaven,’ but instead about ‘singing white folks into hell.’ Faced with this ever-present possibility, there can only be the daily battle against the singing – a battle between the fear of and the desire for oneness with the other that wears him out. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 171

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The image of Black singing as an existential threat — ‘singing white folks into hell’ — reframes racial violence as a paranoid defense against the other’s autonomous joy, a genuinely dense formulation of the psychology of supremacy.