Informal inclusion in Latin America masked structural barriers that formal exclusion made legible

Evidence

Race serves as invisible border line demarcating both who formally belongs or not and what can or cannot be said about it. The border line is inscribed not at the level of personal relation, of social and sexual intercourse or the excitement of avant-garde aesthetic expression, but in the crevices of political divides and formal relations of power, of institutional access and full membership in the polity, of educational standards and citizenship requirements. Nonracialism squeezing out any possibility of antiracism. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 909 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Latin American marginalization of blackness operated informally through class rather than legislation; Racelessness redraws public norms while privatizing the institutional mechanisms that perpetuate exclusion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 959; Latinamericanization exemplifies racisms that deny race while structuring exclusions (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial exclusion persists through institutions while personal relations integrate #complicates (0.77) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 909