When overt racism is socially shed, its institutional force persists across all mapped regions

Evidence

The central case studies of racial regionalizations – of regional racisms – I have undertaken in this book evidence the repressive embedding of racisms’ persistent institutionalizations as their explicit terms of enunciation have been socially shed. … Racial americanization revealed the historical play between segregation and its privatizing born again expression at home and in its neo-imperializing reach. Racial palestinianization has concerned the forcing of occupational partition and the dialectics of terror and targeted assassinations, of suicide bombing and collateral killing in the name of securing cycles of partial population safety and frustrated revenge. Racial europeanization revealed the shift to categorical erasure and coded reference in the wake of unspeakable destructiveness, attended by the elevation of fixing boundaries cultural as much as territorial as immigration was made the dominant expression of racial threat. And racial latinamericanization has conjured the social rules for promoting and containing racial mixture. Finally, where racial southafricanization historically revealed the repressive debilitations and restrictions implicated in the convictions of a political theology of race, it has now come to exemplify the post-racial ambivalence between a commitment to nonracialism and a more robust racial irrelevance. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1906

Categorization

• XREF: Replicates the threatened-privilege mechanism test: racism’s repressive embedding persists even as its explicit terms change, across American, Palestinian, European, Latin American, and South African cases. — connects to: Race quietly continues to structure membership even where racial talk is silenced. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 290; Institutional racism would persist even if individual racism vanished; Institutional racism can persist without any individual racists — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2388 (+4 more)
• SEED: The sweep of five ‘regionalizations’ — each showing institutional racial force outliving its explicit language — yields a comparative essay structure testing whether threat mobilization mutates rather than dies under pressure.

Broader Connections

• Institutional racism can persist without any individual racists #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2388
• Institutional racism would persist even if individual racism vanished #corroborates (0.95)
• Racism operates through routine practices that reproduce hierarchical structures #expands (0.72)