Racialization mechanisms are porous across internal and external targets

Evidence

But other factors such as competition for economic and political resources (education, jobs, housing, elected office) - may seem to have no “racial” reference. The racialization problematic enables us to draw out the relationship between these seemingly unrelated variables, and to assess the significance of each of them. What this conceptual approach requires, rather than presumes, is that there is a need to question and explain the social and cultural boundaries and identities by which groups called “races” have been, and continue to be, defined. The best way to do this is via an historical and comparative approach. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1854 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

The recodification of racism in North America (and, by extension, Western Europe) is an exceedingly important and historic development, for from our vantage point it in fact, and quite paradoxically, defetishizes the famous color line that W. E. B. Du Bois identified as the defining moment of the twentieth century; and it exposes the social construction of racism and the manufactured racialization of humanity, thus divided so that it may be better ruled. With the services they are eager to provide, the native informers present a paradoxically positive aspect, for they become caricatures of themselves by caricaturing the cultures they represent or misrepresent. By overselling themselves, the native informers expose the transitory paradigmatics of manufacturing race, ethnicity, and gender apartheid mechanisms. The color line can no longer claim to be the defining moment of the twentieth century with Barack Obama as president and, more important, with the transmutation of black into brown, African into Arab, and Jew into Muslim. This transitional period exposes the naked neurosis of the racist imagination and should release humanity forever from the artificial bondage of manufactured racialization, of racialized minorities (who are in fact the majority), cross-fetishizing their “races”. For every black or brown native informer there are millions of human beings who are not and should not be trapped inside a racialized imagination. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 639 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Pressure to pass into whiteness acted on all racialized groups; Racialization technologies are deployed on internal class others before foreign enemies; Global events abroad shape domestic racial hierarchies in ways U.S.-centric accounts miss — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 67 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Racisms hybridize across racialized groups rather than staying within fixed boundaries #exemplifies (1.00)
• Racialization analysis links seemingly raceless resource competition to racial boundary-making. #exemplifies (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1854
• Shifting racism’s targets exposes the social construction of race itself #corroborates (0.95) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 639