Xenophobia and racial hatred rest on different structures of feeling

Evidence

Xenophobia, or its more general term heterophobia, thus turns out to imply a quite different structure of feeling to that of racial hatred. This is not to say that rivalries between close similars (qua narcissism of minor differences) cannot become racialized - as the horrible example of ethnic cleansing in ex-Yugoslavia clearly demonstrates - but this entails a qualitative transformation not a mere quantitative increase in the amount of libidinal energy invested in the construction (Ignatieff, 1995). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1389

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes xenophobia/heterophobia (fear of the near-similar) from racial hatred (fear/assertion against the constitutively different), refining how ‘racism’ gets used in the vault.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1389
• XREF: connects to: Southern and western race-feelings diffused nationwide to shape immigration views — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1033; Inter-racial fear could eclipse national loyalty even among nativist writers — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1642; Racism against Africans and anti-Semitism follow distinct psychological dynamics rooted in status perceptions. — Susan T. Fiske et al., A Model of (Often Mixed) Stereotype…, 305 (+1 more)