The legal self-identification requirement for ethnic groups constitutes self-racialization

Evidence

The case law suggests that for discrimination law, at least when it comes to groups commonly understood in ethnic or religious terms to whom other proxies of race, such as colour or national origin do not readily apply, race is a matter of how both others (e.g. society, the state, discriminators, villifiers) see a group and how a group sees itself. Given that the law speaks of ethnicity, this requirement could also be called ethnicization (Bloul 2008) but in light of ‘ethnic’ constituting a proxy or allied term for race in law, here I suggest that it might be better to understand the required process as self-racialization. — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 57

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the book’s core coinage ‘self-racialization’ as reframing of the legal self-identification requirement when ‘ethnic’ proxies for race.
• XREF: connects to: The self-identification requirement entered law via ‘ethnic’, not via race itself — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 36; Racial discrimination can precede and constitute a group’s own racialized self-understanding — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 66; Both self-identification and actuality requirements shift legal focus from discriminators’ attitudes to victims’ identity — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 75 (+10 more)

Related

• The self-identification requirement entered law via ‘ethnic’, not via race itself (similarity 0.89)
• Black racial identity is externally imposed before it is self-chosen (similarity 0.88)
• Racial identity has multiple dimensions that statutes fail to specify (similarity 0.86)
• New racial identities can form in response to racism itself (similarity 0.86)
• Anti-discrimination law requires groups to self-identify as racialized before they gain protection (similarity 0.84)
• Racial discrimination can precede and constitute a group’s own racialized self-understanding (similarity 0.83)
• Full racialization requires external ascription and internal adoption to eventually coincide (similarity 0.83)
• Racialization analysis targets groups marked by race, not prejudice itself. (similarity 0.82)
• Visible phenotype is not required for a group to become racialized (similarity 0.82)
• Black American identity fuses external ascription with self-identification (similarity 0.82)
• Racial ascription can override a person’s own refusal of that identity (similarity 0.82)
• Racial ascription can override visual passing and self-identification alike (similarity 0.81)
• Racial identity is a dynamic bricolage, not a fixed biological given. (similarity 0.81)
• Racial subjection is never complete because imposed identity provokes internal redefinition (similarity 0.81)
• Both self-identification and actuality requirements shift legal focus from discriminators’ attitudes to victims’ identity (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Both self-identification and actuality requirements shift legal focus from discriminators’ attitudes to victims’ identity #expands (0.80) — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 75
• Naturalizing one’s own cultural identity drives racialization of social life #corroborates (0.80)
• Race is simultaneously externally imposed and freely self-assumed #complicates (0.80)
• Racial identification is reified even when one denies it #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 32
• Black American identity fuses external ascription with self-identification #complicates (0.80) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 341
• Racial discrimination can precede and constitute a group’s own racialized self-understanding #complicates (0.78) — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 66
• Black racial identity is externally imposed before it is self-chosen #complicates (0.78) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 340
• Racial identity has multiple dimensions that statutes fail to specify #complicates (0.75) — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 70
• Assigned racial categories cage black people into self-occupancy #exemplifies (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 545
• Racialization assigns visibly non-white people into a collective identity they may not hold #complicates (0.75)
• Naturalized racial labels perform their own silencing of hybrid identities #corroborates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 860
• Racial identity as a sign must give way to positional, political subjectivities #complicates (0.70)