The biological referent is never fully absent from discourses of ethnicity

Evidence

Modood (1997), however, in my opinion goes too far in attempting to distinguish “cultural racism” from any connection with fixity or the biological and draws, too, a sharp opposition between “biological racism” and “cultural differentialism.” I think this misreading comes from not taking the discursive character of racism sufficiently into account. Modood is therefore misled into taking the biological referent in “biological racism” too literally. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 395 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cultural and biological racisms cannot be sharply separated discursively — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 395; Biological racism and cultural differentialism are racism’s two registers, not separate systems; Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic (+2 more)

Related

• Cultural and biological racisms cannot be sharply separated discursively (similarity 0.92)
• Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other (similarity 0.89)
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism are racism’s two registers, not separate systems (similarity 0.89)
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism combine rather than replace each other. (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural-racism defenses are fallacious since all racism includes cultural components (similarity 0.81)
• Hybridity is cultural combination free of racial referents (similarity 0.81)
• Cultural racism locks groups into immutable genealogies as biological racism did (similarity 0.80)
• Race and ethnicity are two concurrent registers of a single racism (similarity 0.80)
• Culturalist readings of race can erase structural and cultural inequality claims (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural racism locks groups into immutable genealogies just as biological race did. (similarity 0.79)
• Ancient notions of race as biology do not match reality (similarity 0.79)
• Racism scholarship long confined itself to biological black-white and antisemitic models (similarity 0.79)
• Conflating biological and cultural-inferiority discourses defines the multicultural moment. (similarity 0.79)
• Structural-historical and confessional-memoir antiracisms may complement rather than rival each other (similarity 0.78)
• Essentialist anti-racist discourse reproduces the biology it claims to oppose. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Cultural and biological racisms cannot be sharply separated discursively #corroborates (0.92) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 395
• Biological racism and cultural differentialism are racism’s two registers, not separate systems #corroborates (0.90)
• Cultural racism substitutes cultural difference for biological difference as a racial logic #qualifies (0.85)
• Racism operates through biological and cultural registers that reinforce each other #corroborates (0.83)
• Hybridity is cultural combination free of racial referents #contradicts (0.78)