Rootlessness characterizes all race organizations whether adopted consciously or by circumstance

Evidence

Rootlessness is characteristic of all race organizations. What the European “movements” consciously aimed at, the transformation of the people into a horde, can be watched like a laboratory test in the Boers’ early and sad attempt. While rootlessness as a conscious aim was based primarily upon hatred of a world that had no place for “superfluous” men, so that its destruction could become a supreme political goal, the rootlessness of the Boers was a natural result of early emancipation from work and complete lack of a human-built world. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 510

Categorization

• DEFINE: Arendt defines rootlessness as the defining trait of race organizations, distinguishing its conscious vs. natural origins.
• XREF: Connects directly to the concept of the ‘superfluous man’ that the Islamophobia readings will invoke for statelessness and mass exclusion.