Subordinate self-determination is read as a threat to dominant rule

Evidence

The potential selfdetermination of the powerless and subjugated, the potentiality of which is always immediately if far from completely signified in a racial state by the invested significance in the skin, is taken as threatening to the continued domination of the powerful. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1504

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dominant groups treat subjugated groups’ potential self-determination as a threat to their own domination. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1504; Subordinates inflict harm on their own group with benevolence to succeed within dominant rules — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 683; Dominant groups frame subordinate challenges as illegitimate pushiness — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3415 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Dominant groups frame subordinate challenges as illegitimate pushiness #exemplifies (0.90) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3415
• Dominant groups frame subordinate demands as illegitimate through principled defenses #exemplifies (0.90)
• Subordinates inflict harm on their own group with benevolence to succeed within dominant rules #expands (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 683
• Subordinates under a powerful superior may come to distrust one another #expands (0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 478
• Subordinates actively cooperate in their own oppression #expands (0.82)
• Social hierarchy is maintained by dominants and subordinates cooperatively #expands (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3212
• Participation and collective decision-making neutralize rather than redistribute subordinate power #corroborates (0.80) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 800
• Subordinates sometimes favor dominant groups over their own ingroups #expands (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3209