Covert racism requires inferential argument to be recognized at all

Evidence

Arguments are relevant to explain why the complications are seen as forms of everyday racism. In the context of covert racism, this is the most interesting category because it deals with the question: “Why did you think what happened was discrimination?” This category makes plausible, defensible, or acceptable the hypothetical evaluation that particular actions are manifestations of racism, even when at face value they might appear nonracial. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1505

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines a key component of covert racism: the justificatory argument that links seemingly nonracial acts to a racist reading.
• XREF: Connects to the vault’s everyday-racism (Essed) and covert/institutional racism literatures; sharpens what separates covert from overt racism. — connects to: Geographic quotas can function as covert racial discrimination that is nearly impossible to prove — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 1704; Victim accounts are valid data because racism is covert and routinely denied — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1500
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1505