Denying race as fiction is a reaction against imposed being

Evidence

Antiracialism is to take a stand, instrumental or institutional, against a concept, a name, a category, a categorizing. It does not itself involve standing (up) against (a set of) conditions of being or living, as it is not always clear what those conditions might in fact be for which race is considered to stand as a sort of shorthand. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 84 (#expands, via linked claim)

So how do we start to change our racial habits? It’s not easy. We enter a world not of our own making. People already have a sense of what is good and bad, what is appropriate and inappropriate. Tradition and history matter. Values, which go beyond our individual desires, matter. We learn this race stuff, and in some ways we have little choice. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 168 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race is simultaneously externally imposed and freely self-assumed; Opposing the race concept differs from opposing racist conditions — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 84; Anti-racism is a refusal of race’s theologically mediated law — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1351 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Race is simultaneously externally imposed and freely self-assumed #expands (0.92)
• Opposing the race concept differs from opposing racist conditions #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 84
• Racial beliefs are learned in a world not of our own making #expands (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 168
• Anti-racism is a refusal of race’s theologically mediated law #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1351