Biopower recoded race war into a defensive struggle against internal biological threats.

Evidence

Biopower transformed the race war discourse in significant ways: the race war discourse transmuted into the idea that “We have to defend society against all the biological threats posed by the other race, the subrace” (Foucault, 1997, pp. 61-62) that lives among us, that is internal to the nation. Within the biopolitical frame the race war discourse was recoded as a prism to understand power relations and how they divide the social body, in which in order to live you must kill, which, in a racist logic, gets translated into “if you want to live, the other must die” (Foucault, 1997, p. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 539

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies how race war discourse gets internalized — the enemy is reframed as a ‘subrace’ living within the nation.
• XREF: Directly resonates with Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended lectures on state racism.