Racially marked others are simultaneously desired and denied in modern social orders
Evidence
Those distantiated in virtue of their racial distinction are at once rendered desirable in virtue of their difference; those fashioned as somehow fantastic are at once constituted, ambiguously and ambivalently, as the objects of fantasy, pursued as rnuch as fabricated, desired as much as denied, in those terms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 54
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: Dense, ambivalent insight: racism is not pure repulsion but a double motion of desire and denial — a genuinely paradigm-shifting compaction of the psychodynamics of racialization.
Related
- Ascription of racial identity drives both compliance with and resistance to the stereotype (similarity 0.80)
- Racism aims to annihilate the Other’s desire, not merely to assimilate or dominate it (similarity 0.78)
- Unconscious racism names how primordial feeling-structures become racialized (similarity 0.78)