Racisms combine across racialized groups rather than dividing cleanly by target
Evidence
The curious addition of a Hindu deity (the monkey god Hanuman) into the mix demonstrates how racisms don’t keep to prefixed borders and often combine various racialized groups. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 651
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Connects to the structure of intersectional racial theory and how disparate tropes (antisemitic, anti-Muslim, anti-Hindu) contaminate one another in a single stream of hate speech.
Related
- Racisms against different groups bleed into and combine with one another (similarity 0.93)
- Racisms against distinct groups blend and combine without fixed borders. (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-Muslim racism operates through a distinct racial logic (similarity 0.80)
- Antisemitism and Islamophobia share tropes but remain structurally distinct racisms (similarity 0.80)
- Racism and hostility intensify rather than erase traditional identifications. (similarity 0.80)
- Multiple intersecting macro factors, not single causes, produce systematic anti-Muslim discrimination (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-Muslim animus unites groups that were themselves former racist targets (similarity 0.79)
- Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form (similarity 0.79)