Racism is a rationalized disposition toward premature death, not isolated hate

Evidence

Everyday expressions serve accordingly as a form of what Mahmood Mamdani calls “racial branding,” marking a group and its members as vulnerable and thereby disposing them guiltlessly to abject treatment and in the final analysis extermination. Considering racism as the rationalized disposition or vulnerability to premature death is intended to shift the prevailing sense in racial studies that racist violence is now anomalous, largely exceptional, and secondary to the lingering conditions of individuated hate or discriminations. This erosion ignores the relation of the everyday to large-scale institutional violence, of individuated expressions to the likes of ethnoracial cleansing, obliviousness among inhabitants of globally powerful states to terrorizing invisibility, and routine threat to large-scale, state-directed preemptive strikes. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 144

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines racism as disposition to premature death, reframing death rather than hate as the analytic core.
• XREF: connects to: Racism is best understood as the promotion of premature death — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 141; Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 141; Racism operates as production of group vulnerability to premature death (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism is best understood as the promotion of premature death #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 141
• Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated. #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 141
• Racism operates as production of group vulnerability to premature death #corroborates (0.93)
• Racism operates even without deliberate hatred #expands (0.88) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 125
• Racism can serve as a strategy of war determining who lives and dies. #corroborates (0.87) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 30
• Bombing and sanctions constitute racialized vulnerability to premature death #exemplifies (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 87
• A racist logic marked Iraqis as vulnerable to premature death #exemplifies (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 197
• Racism may not require presuming intrinsic inferiority of the other #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 64
• Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity #corroborates (0.82) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 336
• Modern racism is framed as individual deviance rather than systemic structure #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1817