Racialization technologies are deployed on internal class others before foreign enemies
Evidence
The first type of attack was midwife to the second. The new immigrants had the very bad luck to arrive in America en masse at a time when nativism was already running at full tilt, and when neither anarchist nor Jesuit afforded a wholly satisfactory victim for it. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 518 (
#contradicts, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Racialization mechanisms are porous across internal and external targets; Racial palestinianization functions as a testing ground for racial americanization’s lethal technologies; Foreign wars drive domestic racialization of perceived enemy populations (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Generalized anti-foreign attacks historically precede targeting a group as a unique racial menace
#contradicts(0.80) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 518 - Racialization mechanisms are porous across internal and external targets
#corroborates(0.75) - Foreign wars drive domestic racialization of perceived enemy populations
#qualifies(0.75) - Racial palestinianization functions as a testing ground for racial americanization’s lethal technologies
#expands(0.72) - Distinct racist systems fuse by cross-codifying their targets.
#corroborates(0.72) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 568 - Comparative racialization conflates distinct groups into one fungible suspect figure
#corroborates(0.72) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 235