Extreme racial states come to make race stand for everything

Evidence

In racial states, as Benjamin Disraeli commented over a century ago, all comes to be race. And in the twist of their most extreme manifestations, in the penetrating institutionalization of race, race comes to be all. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 65

Categorization

• CANDY: Disraeli’s one-liner ‘all comes to be race’ plus the inverted twist is a memorable, quotable observation.

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