Emphasis on merit and racelessness accompanied shifts away from the welfare state

Evidence

The increasing stress on individualized merit and ability in the name of racelessness was coterminous with structural shifts in state formation away from welfarism and the caretaker state following the mid-1970s. As globalization took on dramatically new form, its regimes of management and rule developed novel strategies. Eventually, these cohered under the rubric of neoliberalism. … Neoliberalism accordingly took hold of political imaginaries as capitalism vigorously sought to expand its market reach, as the institutional structures underpinning capital and their fueling came under pressure, as technologies of travel, communication, and information flows became speedier and more sophisticated, further shrinking distances and compressing time. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1739

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to chapter summaries asserting welfare-state era offered optimism to previously excluded groups. — connects to: Welfare bureaucracies materially advanced historically excluded groups before 1980 — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1740; Meritocratic racelessness discourse accompanied the neoliberal retreat from the welfare state — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1739; Neoliberalism removed race from public vocabulary while privatizing it — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1781 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Meritocratic racelessness discourse accompanied the neoliberal retreat from the welfare state #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1739
• Racelessness reassigns responsibility for racial outcome from state structures to individuals #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 123
• Neoliberalism removed race from public vocabulary while privatizing it #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1781