True antiracism risks death while antiracialism opposes only a concept

Evidence

Antiracism, by contrast, conjures a stance against an imposed condition, or set of conditions, an explicit refusal or a living of one’s life in such a way one refuses the imposition, whether one is a member of the subjugated population or the subjugating one. It is an insistence that one not be reduced, at least not completely, to or by the implications marked by the imposition and constraint, by the devaluation and attendant humiliation. At the limit, antiracism is the risk of death, the willingness to forego life, perhaps at once the measure of the severity of the imposition, dislocation, and curtailment, and of the seriousness of the commitment. There clearly is no evidence of antiracialism ever commanding that sort of risk. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 85 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Claims that race has died actually deny continuing racism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 147; Antiracialism opposes the category of race without opposing racialized living conditions; Antiracism demands life-or-death commitment; antiracialism never does — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 85 (+2 more)

Broader Connections