A world without whiteness could exist without historical racism.
Evidence
If a contemporary state without blackness (in the extended political sense) would be one subjected to a terrible holocaust, biological or cultural, a state without whiteness would be one, in a worldly scheme of things, without racism as historically configured. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 141
Categorization
- DEFINE: ‘Blackness’ is used in an extended political sense, and whiteness is tied specifically to historically configured racism.
Related
- Race and ethnicity cannot be understood apart from historical context. (similarity 0.81)
- Racelessness extended racial historicism rather than contradicting it (similarity 0.80)
- Academic study of race long ignored whiteness as an unexamined norm. (similarity 0.80)
- Racial states are inherently violent, not merely exercises of power (similarity 0.79)
- Racelessness forms differ in their founding motives and effects (similarity 0.79)
- Whiteness is a manufactured legal and cultural status, not a biological condition (similarity 0.79)
- Racial historicism makes racial structures invisible and absolves individuals of responsibility for them (similarity 0.79)
- Race and racism must be distinguished analytically and politically (similarity 0.79)
- Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.79)
- Black identity is politically constructed, not grounded in fixed biological categories. (similarity 0.78)
- The racial state is a template, not a fixed form (similarity 0.78)
- Racialization and racism are distinct empirical states (similarity 0.78)
- Post-racist states must transformatively redress past racial exclusions. (similarity 0.78)
- Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so (similarity 0.78)
- Critical Whiteness studies emerged from critical race theory (similarity 0.78)