Racism works by making the dominated experience themselves as Other.

Evidence

One must start, then, from the concrete historical “work” which racism accomplishes under specific historical conditions—as a set of economic, political, and ideological practices, of a distinctive kind, concretely articulated with other practices in a social formation. These practices ascribe the positioning of different social groups in relation to one another with respect to the elementary structures of society; they fix and ascribe those positionings in ongoing social practices; they legitimate the positions so ascribed. In short, they are practices which secure the hegemony of a dominant group over a series of subordinate ones, in such a way as to dominate the whole social formation in a form favorable to the long-term development of the economic productive base. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 635 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racism generates race through repeated practice, not difference perception.; Racist gazes can make colonized subjects become Other to themselves — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1344; Everyday racism operates through familiar routine practices that actualize underlying racial relations — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1484 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Racism functions to secure a dominant group’s hegemony over subordinate groups. #complicates (0.72) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 635