Racial essences gained epistemic force from strategic shifting attributes, not fixed ones.

Evidence

Therefore, for me to use the concept of racialization to understand how Muslim bodies acquire racial meanings, I provide a newer, updated definition of the term employing other factors that allow for bodies to be understood as racial. I define it as “the process by which bodies become racial in their lived realities because of biological and/or cultural traits as a result of the inter­ section and cooperation between ideologies, policies, laws, and social interactions that results in the denial of equal treatment in society.” This definition allows scholars to examine racialization as interactional—­between societal institutions and individuals. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 88 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial racial essences were protean and repeatedly reformulated, not fixed — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 45; Racialization mutates with the power interests that institutionalize it, not fixed phenotypes.; Race persisted as epistemic currency even after its formal abolition as legal criterion (+5 more)

Related

• Racialization mutates with the power interests that institutionalize it, not fixed phenotypes. (similarity 0.94)
• Racialization can proceed from cultural traits without any phenotypic difference (similarity 0.89)
• Racial identification is learned, not observed in skin color. (similarity 0.87)
• Racialization operates through cultural traits and social interactions, not only physical cues. (similarity 0.85)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural traits for biological ones in racializing groups. (similarity 0.84)
• Race’s specificity is positional rather than essential yet remains real (similarity 0.84)
• Racialization assigns presumed negative traits to define a group. (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic (similarity 0.83)
• Racialization is a changing process where context shapes anti-racism too (similarity 0.83)
• Race is a medium that transforms contingent attributes into supposed essences (similarity 0.83)
• Race functions as a master status tied to oppression rather than demographic mixing (similarity 0.83)
• Racial essences work through flexible strategic attribute-selection, not fixed traits (similarity 0.83)
• Racialization shifts with the political interests of those in power (similarity 0.83)
• Race is a social reduction to sheer force, not a natural trait (similarity 0.83)
• Cultural traits like language, clothing, and religious practice can racialize a group. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Race lacks a singular transhistorical essence and is not fully determined by economics #corroborates (0.80)
• Racialization mutates with the power interests that institutionalize it, not fixed phenotypes. #corroborates (0.75)
• Racialization can proceed from cultural traits without any phenotypic difference #corroborates (0.65) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 88
• Race persisted as epistemic currency even after its formal abolition as legal criterion #expands (0.60)
• Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form #corroborates (0.60)
• Race operates as an active structuring principle of present society, not a residue. #corroborates (0.55)