Repeated racist differentiation manufactures a race that then appears real.

Evidence

In summary, racism deployed against a discernible group based on some shared difference creates a racial identity. The reiterative process of racial differentiation into an identity through the rituals of racism eventually gives rise to a race. Even if that race is fictitious and spectral, it appears to exist. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 526

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is the operational core of racecraft: racism precedes and produces the race, not the reverse.
• XREF: Directly parallels Aziz’s Racial Muslim thesis that racialization generates the racial category rather than reflecting a pre-existing one. — connects to: Race emerges from prior racist practice, not from perceived difference — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 32; Racism is real but race is only an idea manufactured by racist practice.; Racism is real while race itself is a myth — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 39 (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Race emerges from prior racist practice, not from perceived difference #expands (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 32
• Racism is real but race is only an idea manufactured by racist practice. #expands (0.95)
• Racism is real while race itself is a myth #expands (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 39
• Racism precedes and produces race, not the reverse #expands (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 52
• Racism generates race through repeated practice, not difference perception. #expands (0.95)
• Race exists only as a specter produced by racism, not as reality #expands (0.95)
• Race is an unreal myth that racism itself produces through fluid identities #expands (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 39
• Racism creates races through practice, and the practice hides itself as its own evidence #expands (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 322
• New racial identities can form in response to racism itself #complicates (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 51
• Positive stereotypes of a race can still be racist #complicates (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 826
• Racism persists but has shifted from blatant to unconscious subtle forms #complicates (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 143
• Naturalizing racial categories reproduces the racism it aims to escape. #complicates (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 290
• Racist ideologies can be turned into vehicles of opposition and resistance #complicates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 638
• Race is socially constructed rather than biologically real but has powerful social effects #complicates (0.80) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 113
• Race’s apparent naturalness conceals the labor that reproduces racial arrangements #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 58