Racialization operates as a form of warfare deciding who lives and dies
Evidence
This is racism not simply in the sense of systems of control and hierarchy but also in the sense of determining who lives and dies as a strategy to maintain and legitimize the authority of a colonizing force. For such a rationale, races are populations ascribed an identity as friend or enemy and, more important, are bound and contained by an ideological profile. Such racism as war demands that the technological innovations and improvisations of the military and the media both mask and justify racialization as part of the common good toward the promise of a democratic future. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 30 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
In a terse twist, by the same token, death’s distillation, its concentration, the recognition of death’s enormity in these cases conjures racial evaporation. In the case of slavery racial evaporation transpires in the delinking of past from present and future, The concentrated killing of Auschwitz evaporates race in the insistence of the Shoah’s uniqueness, its exemplary exceptionality. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 848 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 141; Sacralized racial hierarchy licenses unlimited violence against the demonized. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1559; Any group defined as a racial object finds its identity mediated through death — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1837 (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- Racism can serve as a strategy of war determining who lives and dies.
#corroborates(0.97) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 30 - Acknowledging death’s enormity can itself erase the racial dimension
#complicates(0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 848 - Racism is the lived modality through which class is fought
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