Applied racial science was not a retreat from but a continuation of racism
Evidence
Those who considered the nineteenth century, and scientific racism in particular, the apex of racist expression have thought the applied turn a shift away also from racist expression as such, a revealing of racism’s intellectual vacuity, its essential irrationality, in the wake of racism’s failure to exhibit scientific legitimacy. But such an interpretation is misleading. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 18
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Goldberg’s broader thesis in this book that racial states perpetually regenerate racism in new forms rather than abandoning it. — connects to: Discredited phrenology was succeeded by IQ testing defending racial hierarchy — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 60
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- Racism relocated from biology into culture after Darwinism lost legitimacy (similarity 0.82)
- Race and racism must be distinguished analytically and politically (similarity 0.80)
- The racial state is a template, not a fixed form (similarity 0.80)
- Anti-racist politics that centers race tends to reinscribe the very exclusions it opposes (similarity 0.80)
- Scholarship has largely ignored the state’s role in reproducing racism (similarity 0.80)
- The term racialization smuggles in an unargued critical judgment behind neutral description. (similarity 0.79)
- A racially conceived state can only express itself in racial terms (similarity 0.79)
- Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.79)
- Race is a contemporary, evolving formation rather than a premodern leftover (similarity 0.79)
- Racism shifts from discredited scientific claims to cultural arguments (similarity 0.79)
- Nonracialism can serve as cover for neoliberal state retrenchment. (similarity 0.79)
- Extreme racial states come to make race stand for everything (similarity 0.78)
- Racialization and racism are distinct empirical states (similarity 0.78)
- Discredited phrenology was succeeded by IQ testing defending racial hierarchy (similarity 0.78)