Civil society is a racially inscribed accommodation to social domination

Evidence

In short, civil society and its attendant modes of civility are the spaces of accommodation to existing relations of social domination and order, racially inscribed. Civil society, to riff on an oft-cited line about race and class, is the modality in and through which social order is lived, acted upon, acted out. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 231

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes and inverts Marx-Engels line about class being lived and acted out; also resonates with Foucault’s governmentality and Gramsci’s civil society as hegemony. — connects to: Civil society institutions emerged to absorb and legitimate racialized relations of domination. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 229; A society’s civility has a racial and perceptual character distinct from its specific civilities. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 233