State reaction to globalization reorganized around racially inflected perceived threats

Evidence

Since then, and as reaction, the state has been molded into a counterstructure. This counter-movement has sought to delimit the impacts of globalizing deracination, both to maintain a competitive edge within and between states and to secure itself from perceived threats, almost invariably if more or less silently racially perceived and shaped, from without. Accordingly the state became increasingly troubled with securing privatized interests from the projected contamination and threat of those deemed for various reasons not to belong. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1741

Categorization

  • XREF: The ‘perceived threats from without’ framing maps onto the threatened-privilege anticipatory-status mechanism the reader is testing across identity axes. — connects to: Globalization’s disruptions trigger reactive movements defending myths of unitary national identity — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3884; Perceived demographic shift causal threat to White status shifts policy conservatism — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 40

Broader Connections