Racism relocated from biology into culture after Darwinism lost legitimacy

Evidence

Those who considered the nineteenth century, and scientific racism in particular, the apex of racist expression have thought the applied turn a shift away also from racist expression as such, a revealing of racism’s intellectual vacuity, its essential irrationality, in the wake of racism’s failure to exhibit scientific legitimacy. But such an interpretation is misleading. For as the longer-term legacy of Darwin may have signaled a shift from the viability of a scientifically sustained sense of race and racist expression, culturalist and class-centered expressions of racist exclusion began to dominate. The dire political implications that came to be associated with biologically driven racism in the hands of state apparatuses prompted a shift to more palatable popular forms of racial expression, Along with this shift away from physicalist-based notions, the concept of hybridity began in turn increasingly to assume reified culturalist expression (cf. Young 1995: 6). — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 783

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to my article on immodesty moral panics: both trace how moral-political anxieties get re-coded into new domains as old justifications collapse. — connects to: Cultural racism locks groups into immutable genealogies as biological racism did — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 554
• DEFINE: Clarifies the historical shift from physicalist to culturalist expressions of racism.

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• Applied racial science was not a retreat from but a continuation of racism (similarity 0.82)
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism combine rather than replace each other. (similarity 0.82)
• Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other (similarity 0.82)
• Post-war racism shifted from biological hierarchy to cultural difference. (similarity 0.82)
• Modern scientific racism displaced religion from the race concept. (similarity 0.82)
• Racism scholarship long confined itself to biological black-white and antisemitic models (similarity 0.82)
• Culturalist readings of race can erase structural and cultural inequality claims (similarity 0.81)
• Racism emerges where race discourse meets the state (similarity 0.81)
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism are racism’s two registers, not separate systems (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural racism locks groups into immutable genealogies as biological racism did (similarity 0.81)
• The move from biological to cultural racism lets prejudice be renamed cultural critique (similarity 0.81)
• European racism has largely shifted from scientific to cultural grounds of legitimacy (similarity 0.81)