Racial restriction’s victory deflated the manufactured solidarity that had sustained it

Evidence

There have continually been two contradictory principles at work: national unity and racial division. To fuel and justify first the colonial impulse and later the nationbuilding process, race has served as what Antonio Gramsci called an ideological “glue” (Gramsci 1971, 328). — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 85 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The legacies of abolitionist, civil rights, and anti-apartheid social movements have made abundantly evident that there is no ultimate narrative of absolute redemptive transformation resulting from racial revolutions. There are just the piecemeal changes and shifts - some small, ameliorative, accumulative; others largely and to lesser or greater degree groundshifting. But ultimately even the larger changes produce, if not necessarily more often than not, backlashes, changes in racial expression and modes of exclusion themselves. They may become less overt, more subtle, more carefully formulated. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1915 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: A solidarity crusade collapses when its manufactured threat vanishes — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1579; Racial revolutions bring piecemeal gains that typically trigger new backlashes and subtler exclusions — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1915; Race served as ideological glue binding an otherwise divided nation — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 85 (+2 more)

Related

• Race served as ideological glue binding an otherwise divided nation (similarity 0.87)
• Racial revolutions bring piecemeal gains that typically trigger new backlashes and subtler exclusions (similarity 0.83)
• Race functions as an organizing glue binding national unity to racial division (similarity 0.82)
• A solidarity crusade collapses when its manufactured threat vanishes (similarity 0.80)
• Racial divisions remain socially powerful even when their conceptual foundations are false (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Race served as ideological glue binding an otherwise divided nation #corroborates (0.75) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 85
• Racial revolutions bring piecemeal gains that typically trigger new backlashes and subtler exclusions #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1915