Racism is eliminable because it is historically contingent rather than culturally permanent

Evidence

Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields argue in Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life that racism produces the myth of race. Racism is real, but race is not. Race is an idea, not a material fact. However, increasingly, even those who challenge racism have come to treat race as a reality whose borders are not only fixed and unchanging but also require policing. Race seems real. But this is an effect of racecraft. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 52 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In this, it is the relative autonomy that Gramsci grants to political and cultural factors—with a determining effectivity of their own, in the war of position conducted around the state and civil society—that is critical. This is what allows him to link explicitly political issues of ideology to the question of the lived forms of popular culture. In doing so, he recognizes the contradictory nature of consciousness and of common sense itself. The recognition of this degree of discursive fluidity and provisionality then allows Stuart to make the analogy between the inadequacy of any conception of a pregiven, class-conscious, unified proletarian revolutionary subject and, similarly, any model of a predetermined antiracist black consciousness. In the end, he argues, what we can derive from a Gramscian perspective is a concrete analysis not of racism in general but of specific historical racisms, as they are constituted in particular sociocultural circumstances. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 68 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Because anti-Muslim racism is historically contingent, it can be ended.; Racism should be analyzed as historically specific, not as a universal human structure. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 68; Racism has no universal structure but only historically specific forms (+19 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism should be analyzed as historically specific, not as a universal human structure. #corroborates (1.00) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 68
• Racism has no universal structure but only historically specific forms #corroborates (1.00)
• Analysis must treat racisms in their historical specificity, not as one universal form #corroborates (1.00) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 632
• Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form #corroborates (1.00)
• Racism precedes and produces race, not the reverse #corroborates (1.00) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 52
• Modern racism legitimizes itself through cultural difference rather than biological hierarchy. #corroborates (1.00)
• Classical biological racism has given way to multiple historically specific racisms #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1875
• Race and racism cannot be fully separated historically or politically #complicates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 82
• Racism arises from Western rationality itself, not as its archaic residue #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1327
• Nationalism operates in history while racism operates outside it #complicates (0.70) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 570
• Racism may not require presuming intrinsic inferiority of the other #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 64
• Modern racism targets cultural difference rather than physical traits #complicates (0.70)
• Racism has relative autonomy from other social relations #complicates (0.70)
• Past racism was explicit, intentional, and institutionally systematic #complicates (0.70) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1815
• Subtle bias alone cannot explain racism’s societal persistence #complicates (0.70) — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 716