Law functions as the state’s tool for creating plunderable races

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

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s legal-construction-of-race theme from earlier Chicago-material and connects anti-Black and settler-colonial framings. — connects to: Law functions to reconstruct society, not merely reflect it