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Racism begins when purity supplants race struggle

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

Racism begins when purity supplants race struggle

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I think that racism is born at the point when the theme of racial purity replaces that of race struggle, and when counterhistory begins to be converted into a biological racism. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 2855

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Racism begins when purity supplants race struggle
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Abandoning humanity's common origin makes natural war between races plausible
Anti-essentialist analysis of race depends on prior anti-essentialism developed through class
Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology
Racism and hostility intensify rather than erase traditional identifications.
Racism effectively mobilized uprooted urban masses outside the nation-state
Racism emerges where race discourse meets the state
Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form
The perception of war between races predates class struggle and religious racism
Michel Foucault — Society Must Be Defended

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