Successful anti-racist movements trigger renewed, subtler forms of racial exclusion, not elimination

Evidence

The legacies of abolitionist, civil rights, and anti-apartheid social movements have made abundantly evident that there is no ultimate narrative of absolute redemptive transformation resulting from racial revolutions. There are just the piecemeal changes and shifts – some small, ameliorative, accumulative; others largely and to lesser or greater degree groundshifting. But ultimately even the larger changes produce, if not necessarily more often than not, backlashes, changes in racial expression and modes of exclusion themselves. They may become less overt, more subtle, more carefully formulated. They may shift in their underlying presuppositions (for example, from biological to cultural racism, or from racial naturalism to racial historicism). They may even jettison the language of and any reference to race itself, whether covert or altogether. In short, the successes of such social movements often given rise and voice to new expressions, new forms, new structures of racist restriction. The threat of race pays no respect, either to silence or to the celebration of its demise. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1915

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the threatened-privilege mobilization thesis the reader is testing: gains by a subordinated group provoke anticipatory status-reassertion, here transposable beyond race to gender, religion, and nativity. — connects to: Anti-racist movements often fail to see anti-Muslim bigotry as racism — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 760; Racial discourse actively produces exclusion, not just retroactive justification — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 24; Racial revolutions bring piecemeal gains that typically trigger new backlashes and subtler exclusions — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1915 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial revolutions bring piecemeal gains that typically trigger new backlashes and subtler exclusions #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1915
• Racism persists but has shifted from blatant to unconscious subtle forms #corroborates (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 143
• Blatant racism has shifted into subtle aversive forms #corroborates (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1101
• Racist intentions went covert while racist policies stayed overt #corroborates (0.82) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 23
• Racial discourse actively produces exclusion, not just retroactive justification #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 24
• Anti-racist politics that centers race tends to reinscribe the very exclusions it opposes #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 64
• Anti-racist movements often fail to see anti-Muslim bigotry as racism #expands (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 760
• National identity transition moments breed new exclusionary racisms #expands (0.75)