Legal reinforcement of racial distinctions worsens their harmful effects
Evidence
Where racial distinction is embedded in or reified by the law, its effects are exacerbated, producing what one might call “racial justice.” Racial justice ambiguously references those peculiar forms of injustice we have come to witness all too often, A state constitution might be suspended (or not extended) in relation to some racially defined population (Palestinians most recently, for instance), or their differential treatment might be written into constitutional terms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 4385
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Gun control is racialized such that racial resentment decreases support for it. — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 98; Commonsense racist assumptions make legal complicity in subordination seem logical — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 368; Racialized claims of terrorist harm weight legal balancing tests against Muslims. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 350 (+2 more)
Related
- Gun control is racialized such that racial resentment decreases support for it. (similarity 0.82)
- Legal reasoning about discrimination merely validates popular misconceptions (similarity 0.81)
- Racialized legal categories are contradictory yet persist as common sense (similarity 0.81)
- Race remains the master category distributing rights and resources in America (similarity 0.78)
- Late nineteenth-century racial rule became rule through law rather than raw force (similarity 0.78)
- Law both authorizes identities and is itself vulnerable to transgressive redefinition by subjects. (similarity 0.78)