Gramsci’s concepts transfer to race despite his silence on it.

Evidence

To read Gramsci in this way would, in my opinion, be to commit the error of literalism (though, with qualifications, that is how Anderson reads him). Actually, though Gramsci does not write about racism and does not specifically address those problems, his concepts may still be useful to us in our attempt to think through the adequacy of existing social theory paradigms in these areas. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 85

Categorization

• XREF: Core methodological premise for the whole scaffolding project: concepts can be carried from one domain into another without literal textual warrant — the transfer mechanism Islamophobia readings depend on.