Racism deploys one set of racecraft tools against every subordinated minority

Evidence

From this textual exercise, two things should be clear. First, the ideology of racism uses the same racecraft or tools against all subordinated minorities which then seem to be “naturally” at the bottom. Strategies such as generalizing from the particular to the whole, constructing essentialist attributes of an out-group member, resignifying terminology, ventriloquizing, and constructing mutual exclusivity have been used against non-white communities to vilify them for centuries. In these two cases, the discourse in the anti-sharia and anti-CRT panics find their antecedents in the legitimation of slavery and Jim Crow and the justifications for colonialism. In the present, we see the racecraft tailored to suit Muslims and primarily Blacks in these panics though they have been in use for centuries in different forms. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 455

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the Fields sisters’ racecraft thesis and connects to Aziz’s ‘Racial Muslim’ argument that Muslims were racialized through inherited colonial tropes. — connects to: The same racecraft techniques are retooled against Muslims and Blacks across panics — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 44; The same racecraft tools operate against every subordinated minority across centuries — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 455; Racecraft is the toolkit that makes racist treatment appear logically grounded in race. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 520 (+20 more)
• DEFINE: Enumerates the operative racecraft techniques: generalizing from particular to whole, essentializing out-group attributes, resignifying terminology, ventriloquizing, and constructing mutual exclusivity.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘The Same Five Tricks’ — tracing one racecraft move (e.g. resignification) across anti-Black, anti-Indian, and anti-Muslim panics as a single rhetorical inheritance.

Broader Connections

• Tools of racecraft honed on Blacks and Native Americans get retargeted at Muslims #corroborates (1.00) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 41
• The same racecraft tools operate against every subordinated minority across centuries #expands (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 455
• Racecraft is a reusable tool racism repurposes to racialize new groups. #corroborates (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 480
• Racist ideas are produced and consumed by people of every race #complicates (0.90) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 28
• Racism operates through routine practices, not only individual prejudice or formal institutions #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1473
• Racism operates through whole institutions and eras, not only individual intentions #qualifies (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1558
• Minority groups each claim unique oppression, blocking cross-group alliances #qualifies (0.90) — Chen-Bo Zhong, Adam D. Galinsky, and Miguel M. Unzueta, Negational racial identity and…, 7
• Ethnocentric racism targets different minorities while sharing commensurable structures across nations #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2571
• Racecraft is the toolkit that makes racist treatment appear logically grounded in race. #responds-to (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 520
• Anti-racism requires defending all discriminated groups, not only one’s own #responds-to (0.85) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 59
• Racisms against different groups bleed into and combine with one another #complicates (0.85)
• Racism operates through routine practices that reproduce hierarchical structures #qualifies (0.85)
• All social formations are racialized but not all are racist #complicates (0.85)
• Resisting one form of racism demands resisting all forms of racism. #responds-to (0.85) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 64
• Racism functions to secure a dominant group’s hegemony over subordinate groups. #complicates (0.85) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 635