Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated.

Evidence

Racism, she notes, is the likely promotion of the premature death of those individuals and groups subjected to the debilitating terms and conditions of racist configurations and exclusions. There is something unsettlingly significant in her insight: racism both involves the increased probability of premature death for those who are the victims of its violence and foreshortens the lives of those who, but for its institutionalized pressures and effects, for its mark(s), would very likely (inevitably?) live better, longer, more productive, less fraught lives. The death at issue may be physical or social, and where social it renders those suffering it significantly more vulnerable to physical death too. Racism, then, produces the conditions, directly or indirectly, that serve to foreshorten life directly but also foreshorten life’s opportunities. … But it is also targeted or collateral malnutrition (a lack of food and bad food), stress formation, physical debilitation, humiliation, and degradation. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 141

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in whether threatened-privilege mechanisms replicate across axes via measurable life-outcome differentials rather than attitudinal categories. — 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 production of group vulnerability to premature death; Racism can serve as a strategy of war determining who lives and dies. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 30 (+8 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 production of group vulnerability to premature death #corroborates (0.92)
• Racism can serve as a strategy of war determining who lives and dies. #expands (0.85) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 30
• Racialization operates as a form of warfare deciding who lives and dies #expands (0.82)
• Any group defined as a racial object finds its identity mediated through death #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1837
• Racism functions as unconscious acting out of infantile oedipal desire. #expands (0.72)