Racism, not migrancy, should frame European postcolonial settlement history

Evidence

I prefer to say that if there has to be one single concept, a solitary unifying idea around which the history of postcolonial settlement in twentieth-century Europe should revolve, that place of glory should be given not to migrancy but to racism. The racisms of Europe’s colonial and imperial phase preceded the appearance of migrants inside the European citadel. It was racism and not diversity that made their arrival into a problem. — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 29

Categorization

• XREF: Directly reverses the premise familiar from diversity/multiculturalism scholarship elsewhere in the book; also resonates with the ‘complaints… go way back’ theme that racialisation precedes arrival. — connects to: Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338; European historicism made racial difference explain subordination instead of colonial power. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 263; Racial attitudes were forged in Europe’s internal debates before Cape settlement — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1316 (+5 more)
• CANDY: The reversal ‘racism and not diversity made their arrival into a problem’ is a punchy, tweetable formulation.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 29

Related

• Racial attitudes were forged in Europe’s internal debates before Cape settlement (similarity 0.83)
• European historicism made racial difference explain subordination instead of colonial power. (similarity 0.82)
• Europe itself, not only its colonies, has a racist structure. (similarity 0.82)
• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts (similarity 0.82)
• Postcolonial multiculturalism has no linear causal link to its colonial past (similarity 0.81)
• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers (similarity 0.81)
• European race prejudice would persist even if blacks lived in metropolitan France (similarity 0.81)
• Race replaced medieval citizenship as the principle of European social order. (similarity 0.80)
• European racial ideology predates colonial encounters and was extended to non-Europeans later (similarity 0.80)
• Denying colonial subjects the rights Europeans fought for required racializing them as essentially fixed (similarity 0.79)
• Racial difference had to be manufactured before Europeans seemed alien (similarity 0.79)
• Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues (similarity 0.79)
• Mixed-race populations’ visibility enabled early modern racism (similarity 0.79)
• European racism predates African enslavement and originated as intra-European domination (similarity 0.79)
• Imperialism would have invented racism even without prior race-thinking (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racism is a structural feature of European civilization, not the exception of colonial adventurers #corroborates (0.88) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 338
• Racial attitudes were forged in Europe’s internal debates before Cape settlement #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1316
• European racism began inside Europe before capitalism or African encounters #corroborates (0.82) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 17
• Racism originated in internal relations among European peoples, not colonial contacts #corroborates (0.78)
• Postcolonial multiculturalism has no linear causal link to its colonial past #expands (0.78) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 313
• European historicism made racial difference explain subordination instead of colonial power. #qualifies (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 263
• Racism against Europeans like the Irish predated color-based slavery #corroborates (0.75)
• Analysis must treat racisms in their historical specificity, not as one universal form #expands (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 632