Racist tropes enter mainstream commonsense making race-based discrimination seem natural.

Evidence

These discursive strategies, which overlap and interact with each other, are critical to the production of racist tropes that then circulate in society and become assumptions and commonsense. 252 Through their repeated use, they become common knowledge and remarkably difficult to dislodge. They are used to justify greater governance of suspect populations. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 358 (#expands, via linked claim)

Here, Professor Capers suggests that within texts there are underlying assumptions and reliance on commonsense anti-Black ideas. Because they are commonsense, everyone knows them, and they do not have to be stated. The problem for raced groups is that these assumptions make the law’s complicity in their subordination seem entirely logical. What Professor Capers terms “reading Black” is a particular deconstructive move that, in this article, is analogous to distilling the racist tropes and discursive strategies from the text. It is the practice of reading for the underlying armature of inequality, subordination, racism, and racial sexism, homophobia, and more. “Reading Black” renders the anti- Blackness or the erasure of race in the legal text more visible; this article’s method renders any specific racism more visible by showing the similarities in the abstract. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 368 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racist ideas were produced to rationalize and normalize existing discrimination — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 203; Naturalizing racial categories reproduces the racism it aims to escape. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 290; Racist knowledge enters mainstream as commonsense once crafted by recurring strategies (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Racist knowledge enters mainstream as commonsense once crafted by recurring strategies #expands (0.95)
• Repeated racist discursive strategies harden into commonsense used to justify governing suspect groups #expands (0.93) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 358
• Commonsense racist assumptions make legal complicity in subordination seem logical #exemplifies (0.90) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 368
• Racist ideas were produced to rationalize and normalize existing discrimination #corroborates (0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 203
• Naturalizing racial categories reproduces the racism it aims to escape. #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 290
• Racism uses value hierarchies framed as natural to control and exploit #corroborates (0.80) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1100
• Racial groups are perceived as natural kinds though they are artifacts #corroborates (0.78)
• Race functions as a naturalized line of difference, not merely skin color #corroborates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1116
• Racism precedes and produces race, not the reverse #complicates (0.72) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 52