Neoliberal racism persists by privatizing institutional racism and dropping racial language

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

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘racisms without racism’ as the core concept of the chapter.
• DEEPTHINKING: The core theoretical claim of the essay: racism survives by going private and cutting its referential language, making it deniable.
• XREF: connects to: Private racial exclusions fall outside state reach under neoliberalism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1768