Racism is naturalized as common sense, not recognized as ideology.
Evidence
Ideologies tend to disappear from view into the taken-for-granted “naturalized” world of common sense. Since (like gender) race appears to be “given” by Nature, racism is one of the most profoundly “naturalized” of existing ideologies [emphasis added]. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 263
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Defines how ideology naturalizes itself into taken-for-granted common sense.
- XREF: Connects to Hall’s encoding/decoding work and to the reader’s broader interest in how power hides in discourse.
Related
- Naturalizing racial categories reproduces the racism it aims to escape. (similarity 0.81)
- Racial inferiority ideology emerges from oppression, not merely from perceived difference (similarity 0.80)
- Racism uses value hierarchies framed as natural to control and exploit (similarity 0.79)
- Racism is transmitted through discourse, not innate (similarity 0.79)
- Racism emerges where race discourse meets the state (similarity 0.78)
- Racism is real but race is only an idea manufactured by racist practice. (similarity 0.78)
- Race in racism is an explanatory idea, not an object of scientific study. (similarity 0.78)