Racialized conflict involves qualitative transformation, not intensified xenophobic feeling

Evidence

Xenophobia, or its more general term heterophobia, thus turns out to imply a quite different structure of feeling to that of racial hatred. This is not to say that rivalries between close similars (qua narcissism of minor differences) cannot become racialized - as the horrible example of ethnic cleansing in ex-Yugoslavia clearly demonstrates - but this entails a qualitative transformation not a mere quantitative increase in the amount of libidinal energy invested in the construction (Ignatieff, 1995). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1389

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: The ex-Yugoslavia example dovetails with the reader’s interest series on mass violence — echoes ‘On Sacrifice’ territory regarding how group difference is manufactured.

Related

• Xenophobia and racial hatred rest on different structures of feeling (similarity 0.87)