Settler and imperial justifications rest on denied racialized us-versus-they splits
Evidence
Occupation as settling in(to) another(’s) place as a movement of modernity invariably has a racial resonance to its prompt and enablement, elaboration and extension or prolongation. This racial fuel is now increasingly silent and almost always today denied, spilling out awkwardly in unguarded and invariably embarrassing expression. “They are in no position to govern themselves” or “They constitute a threat to the rest of us” or “They need us to guide them to democracy” immediately and unselfconsciously articulate an “us” and a “they,” the better or ill prepared, the challenged or the violent placing everyone else at risk. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1851
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies; Human rights rhetoric masks imperial assumptions that racialize colonized peoples; Imperial racism explained away failure to democratize colonies (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Land entitlement claims rest on race rather than history in settler colonies
#corroborates(0.85) - Human rights rhetoric masks imperial assumptions that racialize colonized peoples
#corroborates(0.85) - Imperial racism explained away failure to democratize colonies
#corroborates(0.80) - Racial classification directly sanctioned colonial subjection as logically necessary
#corroborates(0.80) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 516 - Divide-and-rule fragmented the colonized while whiteness unified the colonizers
#expands(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1481 - Colonial liberal assimilation differed fundamentally from later racialized exclusion
#qualifies(0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 63 - Secular imperial ideology racialized civilization in ways that excluded Jews
#complicates(0.75) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 135 - Colonial exclusion sustained empire by dividing colonizers against themselves
#complicates(0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 228