Naturalistic racial governance treats racialized people as extractable natural resources

Evidence

In the naturalistic extreme, racially identified groups are treated much like the natural resources found in the environment, no different than the objects of the landscape available for the extraction of surplus value, convenient value added to raw materiel. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1691

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial governance splits between naturalist and historicist modes into distinct policy forms — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1691; Extreme racisms treat racialized people as extractable natural resources; Racism uses value hierarchies framed as natural to control and exploit — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1100 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Extreme racisms treat racialized people as extractable natural resources #expands (0.85)
• Post-Reconstruction lynching reasserted naturalist racial violence against legalist racial order. #exemplifies (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 80
• Racism uses value hierarchies framed as natural to control and exploit #complicates (0.72) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1100