Category construction, boundary definition, and incorporation are power questions.

Evidence

We therefore need to ask: Who is constructing the categories and defining the boundaries? Who is resisting these imposed identity creations and definitions? What are the consequences being written into or out of particular categories? — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 120

Categorization

  • XREF: Directly mirrors Omi and Winant’s framing of race as boundary- and category-construction over time — a core definitional anchor for the vault. — connects to: Different questions demand different kinds of decision procedures — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 909
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 120