Shifting racist targets from black to brown defetishizes Du Bois’s color line

Evidence

The recodification of racism in North America (and, by extension, Western Europe) is an exceedingly important and historic development, for from our vantage point it in fact, and quite paradoxically, defetishizes the famous color line that W. E. B. Du Bois identified as the defining moment of the twentieth century; and it exposes the social construction of racism and the manufactured racialization of humanity, thus divided so that it may be better ruled. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 639

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on and complicates Du Bois’s 1903 ‘problem of the color line’ prophecy as applied to a new century.

Related

• Shifting racism’s targets exposes the social construction of race itself (similarity 0.90)
• Racism persists while its targets shift from black to brown and Jew to Muslim (similarity 0.81)
• Distinct racist systems fuse by cross-codifying their targets. (similarity 0.78)
• Third-world immigrants have dismantled the twentieth-century American color line (similarity 0.78)
• Capital constantly recodifies racist power relations, so oppression shifts targets (similarity 0.78)