Claims that race is dead really seek to declare racism ended

Evidence

The claim of the evaporation – the death – of race is really a claim not about racial death but about “the end,” the disappearance, of racism, seeking to evade thus the violent and deadly ends, all those threats, large and small, geopolitical and everyday, in the service of which racisms continue to be pressed into practice. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 147 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Claims that race has died actually deny continuing racism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 147; Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 147; Convincing people racism is over ensures that racism persists — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1142 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity #expands (0.93) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 147