Racial reaction mobilized via code words instead of repression alone

Evidence

Racial reaction, then, could not be accomplished simply by repression of its radical elements, because the incorporated components, the “entrists” who had now gained some measure of power, were not thereby rendered ineffective, even if they had been absorbed into the state. In fact, radicals were not neutralized by repression either; though they suffered and were subjected to brutal and illegal state practices, they were not destroyed. Reaction had to find other means to cope with the movement’s successes: There had to be mobilization against the black movement’s accomplishments. “Code words” did some of the early work of reactionary mobilization. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 196

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the vault’s existing claims about dog-whistle politics and colorblind racial ideology; supports what other sources call the New Right strategy. — connects to: Americans are taught to recognize only overt hate speech as racism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 653; Black-on-black oppression escapes condemnation by being misread as not-racism — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 321; White politicians shifted from racial slurs to coded language after civil rights — Philip S. Gorski and Samuel L. Perry, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian…, 89 (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Defines ‘code words’ as reactionary mobilization avoiding explicit white supremacy.