Class-based racial remedies were structurally unwelcome to the postwar U.S. racial state.

Evidence

With the benefit of hindsight we can see that the social democrats who advised the Democratic Party to adopt redistributive policies were bound to be disappointed. Obama, we read, has banned the term. “redistribution” from the White House (Harwood 2013). Clinton too danced to the tune of Wall Street. Even his advisor William J. Wilson’s (2012 ) sage counsel about lessening racial inequality by adopting a policy of redistribution along class lines cultural and political activism. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 236

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ‘On Sacrifice’ themes of how the state absorbs or repels proposals that undermine its institutional logic — redistribution threatens the racial state the way public sacrifice threatened stratified orders.