Civil society institutions reproduce racially structured societies through non-coercive means

Evidence

Gramsci’s subtle use of the state/civil society distinction—even when it fluctuates in his own work—is an extremely flexible theoretical tool, and may lead analysts to pay much more serious attention to those institutions and processes in so-called “civil society” in racially structured social formations than they have been encouraged to do in the past. Schooling, cultural organizations, family and sexual life, the patterns and modes of civil association, churches and religions, communal or organizational forms, ethnically specific institutions, and many other such sites play an absolutely vital role in giving, sustaining, and reproducing different societies in a racially structured form. In any Gramscian-inflected analysis, they would cease to be relegated to a superficial place in the analysis. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 140

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the state/civil society distinction as a theoretical tool for locating where racial reproduction happens.
• XREF: This is the civil-society mechanism that later frames institutional Islamophobia in schooling, religious organizations, and civil association. — connects to: Coercive State power can progressively wither into regulated civil society; Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies.; Color stratification encodes fine-grained social status within colonized societies. (+6 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 140

Broader Connections

• Coercive State power can progressively wither into regulated civil society #responds-to (0.80)
• Racism functions as practices that ascribe and legitimate social positions #expands (0.80)
• Color stratification encodes fine-grained social status within colonized societies. #expands (0.75)
• Multiculturalism and institutional racism can coexist simultaneously #corroborates (0.75)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #expands (0.72)
• Slave-control ideology assigned each African ethnicity a natural niche matching its labor role #exemplifies (0.72)