Neoliberal globalization privatizes institutional racisms stripped of explicit labels

Evidence

Racisms without racism, then, is the peculiar expression of neoliberalizing globalization. It is the way of governing distinction, in the global scheme of enduring freedom, considered too different and difficult to deal with. It is the (re-)institutionalizing of racism gone private, the privatizing of institutionalized racisms. Racisms cut off from their historical fertilizer. Racisms born again, renewed. But shorn of the referential language. The wolf in sheep’s clothing, speaking of sheep while deeply ambivalent about defanging the wolf. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1872 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

With neoliberalism, I have been suggesting, race is purged from the explicit lexicon of public administrative arrangements and their assessment while remaining robust and unaddressed in the private realm. Neoliberalism, as I elaborated most explicitly in the case of post-apartheid South Africa, sought expression as racial secularization. Race faded into the very structures, embedded in the architecture, of neoliberal sociality, in its logics and social relations. Race lost its social sacrality while retaining its personal cache and privatized resonance, even in the public sphere. Michael Richards’s rant about “niggers” onstage at a comedy club in Los Angeles is just one prominent instance of a much wider cast(e), even as the state remains vigilant about equal protection law. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1781 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racelessness redraws public norms while privatizing the institutional mechanisms that perpetuate exclusion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 959; Neoliberalism functions as a response to white status threat. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1764; Private racial exclusions fall outside state reach under neoliberalism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1768 (+19 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal racism persists by privatizing institutional racism and dropping racial language #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1872
• Neoliberalism removed race from public vocabulary while privatizing it #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1781