Racism persists by being reframed as private individual acts rather than institutional inequality.

Evidence

Born again racism is racism without race, racism gone private, racism without the categories to name it as such. It is racism shorn of the charge, a racism that cannot be named because nothing abounds with which to name it. It is a racism purged of historical roots, of its groundedness, a racism whose history is lost. … Born again racism, then, is a racism acknowledged, where acknowledged at all, as individualized faith, of the socially dislocated heart, rather than as institutionalized inequality. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 130

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the book’s central concept of ‘born again racism’ as privatized, history-less racism.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s threatened-privilege research: the institutional/private gap here is a race-axis instance of the contact/institution gap they study. — connects to: Racism persists through everyday practice even after legal segregation ends. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1490; Officials explain racism as personal heart-change rather than institutional pattern or precedent. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 131; Publicly condemning racism legitimates its unregulated private practice — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 134