Genocide is a central site, not a marginal case, for racial formation theory

Evidence

Genocide fundamentally informs racial constructions, their political effects, and the political contours and costs of efforts to resist them. Just as racialization and the production of other schemes of social difference play a key role in making such acts of mass and systematic killing possible, genocides constitute key sites in which the nature and limits of racialization and efforts to resist and punish it are constructed. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 250

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ties the genocide-studies frame into racialization/racial-formation definitions that the vault already relies on from Omi & Winant; positions genocide as where the limits of racialization get defined.
• XREF: Connects to the existing vault usage of ‘racial formation’ and ‘racialization’ from Omi & Winant — this author argues genocide is not peripheral but constitutive of those mechanisms.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 250