Racial unity welded divergent European settler groups into common whiteness

Evidence

Now relatively undeterred and deregulated flows and mixture have been germane to promoting globalized neoliberal commerce. Within the European theater they have been helped along, if unevenly, by more or less resonant informal social intercourse across racial lines. But the promotion of a racially muted sociality within has been supplemented by a more forceful if sometimes symbolic cementing of racially circumscribed border barricades around “fortress Europe” at its geographic limits. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 814 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Divide-and-rule fragmented the colonized while whiteness unified the colonizers — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1481; Racist collectivization denies individuality to colonized groups while sparing whites collective blame; Colonial color hierarchies assigned privilege by proximity to European whiteness — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3223 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• European internal racial mixing coexists with hardened external border barricades #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 814