Economic and sociological paradigms of race define themselves through mutual correction

Evidence

What allows for a characterization of these very different approaches as belonging to a single tendency is simply this: they take economic relations and structures to have an overwhelmingly determining effect on the social structures of such formations. Specifically, those social divisions which assume a distinctively racial or ethnic character can be attributed or explained principally with reference to economic structures and processes. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 579 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race and class must be analyzed as articulated, not causally reduced; Economic and sociological paradigms of race correct each other’s weaknesses but both remain inadequate; Theoretical choices about race determine which political strategies appear valid (+16 more)

Related

• Economic paradigms explain racial and ethnic divisions as effects of economic structures (similarity 0.92)
• Race lacks a singular transhistorical essence and is not fully determined by economics (similarity 0.92)
• Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures (similarity 0.87)
• Race and class must be analyzed as articulated, not causally reduced (similarity 0.85)
• Race fractures the working classes internally in ways class alone cannot explain (similarity 0.85)
• Differential incorporation of labor sectors systematically coincides with racist and ethnic segmentary features (similarity 0.84)
• Racial difference can be constructed as antagonism within a single exploited class (similarity 0.84)
• Sociological approaches insist race and ethnicity have autonomous, non-reducible effects (similarity 0.84)
• Economic analysis is necessary but not sufficient for explaining racism (similarity 0.83)
• Race is the lived medium through which class relations are experienced (similarity 0.83)
• Race operates as an active structuring principle of present society, not a residue. (similarity 0.83)
• Race is historically specific and linked to economic processes, not a transhistorical essence (similarity 0.83)
• Racisms are only intelligible through their specific historical context, not a universal essence. (similarity 0.82)
• Racism is not necessary to the functioning of all capitalisms. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism developed along essentially racial lines, not rational universalist ones (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Each paradigm defines itself as correcting the other’s characteristic weakness #corroborates (0.95)
• Economic paradigms explain racial and ethnic divisions as effects of economic structures #expands (0.70) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 579
• Sociological approaches insist race and ethnicity have autonomous, non-reducible effects #expands (0.60)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Race lacks a singular transhistorical essence and is not fully determined by economics #qualifies (0.50)
• Race fractures the working classes internally in ways class alone cannot explain #exemplifies (0.50)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital #expands (0.50)
• Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form #qualifies (0.40)
• Race is the lived medium through which class relations are experienced #expands (0.40) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 637
• Pluralist race theories remain descriptive rather than properly analytic #complicates (0.40)