Law creates racial categories to enable plunder and profit.
Evidence
The law, a profession that I chose as my own, is the state’s most potent wand in creating “races” to plunder so that a select few can prosper. This is highlighted by the experience of indigenous Americans, members of a remarkably diverse network of nations who were branded godless “savages” before they met the genocidal might of Manifest Destiny and the burgling laws that paved its way. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 217
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Aligns with reading purpose: states learning and deploying racial-legal techniques—here law as the wand that manufactures racial others, a technique later applied to Muslims.
Related
- Law functions as the state’s tool for creating plunderable races (similarity 0.92)
- American law invented Blackness as a legal category to justify slavery (similarity 0.81)
- Racial historicism and the rule of law co-evolved as instruments of dominance (similarity 0.81)
- Legal gatekeepers invented Blackness as property to justify enslavement. (similarity 0.80)
- Late nineteenth-century racial rule became rule through law rather than raw force (similarity 0.80)
- Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.79)
- Law both authorizes identities and is itself vulnerable to transgressive redefinition by subjects. (similarity 0.78)