Racism stays constant while its signifiers shift among target groups

Evidence

The most significant lesson in the current recodification of racism in America is that racism as a phenomenon stays constant while its signifiers change visual and affective registers—from black to brown, from Jew to Muslim, at the center of which bifurcations remains a fictive white Christian interlocutor who demands and exacts racialized superiority. Islam is the new Judaism, Muslims the new Jews, Islamophobia the new anti-Semitism, and brown the new black—all in the racialized imagination of a white-identified supremacy that must first alienate (both in itself and of itself) in order to rule. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 633 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racism’s modes persist after being severed from their categories of meaning — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1867; South African racial categories shifted with expediency despite extreme racism — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 564; Racism persists while its targets shift from black to brown and Jew to Muslim — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 633 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism persists while its targets shift from black to brown and Jew to Muslim #corroborates (0.98) — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 633
• Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form #complicates (0.78)