De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism
Abstract
ABSTRACT Following David Theo Goldberg's astute insights, this article discusses a form of neoliberal authoritarianism that extends incessant denial of systematic racial degradation by de(‐)meaning anti‐racism. It argues that de(‐)meaning works to redefine anti‐racist struggle—including demands for a free Palestine and scholarship explaining the politics of racism—as racist and hostile, while recasting racialised and militarised state power as anti‐racist and humane. Thus, anti‐racism is de‐meaned of its ethical and emancipatory terms, re‐meaned as an unethical and exclusionary endeavour threatening modern socio‐political arrangements, demeaned in the traditional, non‐hyphenated sense of the word, and subject to state warfare masquerading as ‘anti‐racism’. As a specific strategy for maintaining structural racism, de(‐)meaning necessitates resistance rather than defensiveness by reclaiming and renewing anti‐racism that is at once political, collective, anti‐militaristic and transformative.
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| When | Event | Field | Old | New |
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| 2026-06-18 19:37:53.011249+00:00 | identifier_assigned | DSEID | DSEID-001-0810180 |