Bureaucratic classification itself creates subjects who petition for reclassification

Evidence

The sheer existence of bureaucratically defined categories of varying degrees of rights and deprivations prompted frantic efforts to obtain a ‘re-classification’, to prove that one ‘deserves’ to be assigned to a better category. In no case was this effect more visible than in that of the Mischlinge – a ‘third race’ created by the German legislation, and located awkwardly between disfranchised ‘full Jews’ and blameless members of the German Volk. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 369

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the concept of bureaucratic categories as productive, not merely descriptive — a mechanism the reader’s toolkit needs for biopolitics.
• XREF: Connects to Foucauldian productive power and to how the Islamophobia field analyzes classification of racial-religious groups. — connects to: Political representation actively constitutes the class it claims to express; Racial categories were imposed retroactively by administrators, literally reclassifying people.; Totalizing critical categories covertly become admission criteria that police inclusion — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 412

Related

• Racial categories were imposed retroactively by administrators, literally reclassifying people. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Political representation actively constitutes the class it claims to express #expands (0.85)
• Racial categories were imposed retroactively by administrators, literally reclassifying people. #corroborates (0.85)