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In critical race theory, nodality is a framework for understanding how racialized groups are organized into relational nodes within a wider structure.[1]
Description
editEach racial group is a node in a polyhedron, connected to all other nodes, with the white node in the center. Nodality critiques the two-dimensional black-white binary, polypolarity, and triangulation theories of race in favor of a multidimensional model. Instead of understanding racism as unidirectional from white to Black, nodality conceives racism as multidirectional between differentially racialized groups.[2]
There are four main forms of nodality:
- Relational nodality says that all racialized groups are relational and connected rather than isolated, and each group influences the others.
- Regulatory nodality says that the white node regulates the other nodes through differential racialization.
- Inflationary nodality says that, over time, non-white groups transitioning into whiteness become white through white inflation, preserving the contrast value of whiteness as property.
- Peripheral nodality says that Black and Indigenous people, as nodes on the periphery of the polyhedron, are situated in sites of critical resistance.
References
edit- ^ Úq, Qútb (2024). "Nodality: Beyond Binary Thought". Racial Review.
- ^ KIM, CLAIRE JEAN (1999-03-01). "The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans". Politics & Society. 27 (1): 105–138. doi:10.1177/0032329299027001005. ISSN 0032-3292.
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