Short series on differential racialization as way to understand racial subordination in non-binary terms.
I write to counter conservative attempt to blame anti-Asian hate crimes on Black persons.
Binary, racial dyads:
White - non-White OR Black - non-Black 1/
I write to counter conservative attempt to blame anti-Asian hate crimes on Black persons.
Binary, racial dyads:
White - non-White OR Black - non-Black 1/
As we think about additional racial groups, sometimes, race relations is thought of as race hierarchies, with White on top, Black on bottom, and other groups situated somewhere in-between. 
But race hierarchies don't fully capture what is happening. Take Harlan dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson, sometimes celebrated as advancing a vision of equality based on color-blindness.
But you see that equality is not really what he had in mind. 2/
But you see that equality is not really what he had in mind. 2/
Instead, you see naked glorification of white supremacy.
And Harlan's beef with Louisiana segregation statute was that it would allow "a Chinaman" of a race we generally don't allow into US to ride with Whites while Black man who may have risked life to preserve Union can't. 3/
And Harlan's beef with Louisiana segregation statute was that it would allow "a Chinaman" of a race we generally don't allow into US to ride with Whites while Black man who may have risked life to preserve Union can't. 3/
Claire Jean Kim named dynamic "racial triangulation."
Shifting from racial dyads or linear racial hierarchy, she posited that racial triangulation explained better America's racial topography. 4/
Shifting from racial dyads or linear racial hierarchy, she posited that racial triangulation explained better America's racial topography. 4/
What happens then is that you have different axes along which you can map out relative positionality. These different axes can be prioritized or invoked for different purposes on different issues. 5/
Neo-conservatives on school admission can claim to be for racial justice by attacking affirmative action as harming Asian Americans
while simultaneously
on immigration can seek to keep Asians out of country claiming to protect Black workers based on common "American-ness." 6/
while simultaneously
on immigration can seek to keep Asians out of country claiming to protect Black workers based on common "American-ness." 6/
Race positionality is fluid and manipulable.
Racial groups are pitted against each other.
Latest political trolling is amplifying conservative Asian Americans trying to label anti-Asian hate crimes as being perpetrated by Black people. 7/
Racial groups are pitted against each other.
Latest political trolling is amplifying conservative Asian Americans trying to label anti-Asian hate crimes as being perpetrated by Black people. 7/
This is familiar. Go back to late 1980s/early 1990s - the lead-up to Sa-I-Gu, the day LA Koreatown burned following failure of legal system to find guilty police officers who beat Rodney King.
Fostering minority-minority conflict is an age-old con.
8/
Fostering minority-minority conflict is an age-old con.
8/
I hope we don't fall for it.
Instead, consider astute political analysis, 1924, in Chicago Defender: brick [Alien Land Law] bounces off Japanese person and hits a Black American.
"Perhaps It Wasn't Intended for Us, But ..."
By now, we ought to now how this ends. 9/
Instead, consider astute political analysis, 1924, in Chicago Defender: brick [Alien Land Law] bounces off Japanese person and hits a Black American.
"Perhaps It Wasn't Intended for Us, But ..."
By now, we ought to now how this ends. 9/
As we think about and process tragedy in GA, though my class and gender position is very different from the victims, I hope that we come to better understandings of complicated way that race, gender, and class operate and resist overtures that pit us against each other. 10/
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