No one can stand outside race because society and identities are constituted by it

Evidence

Because racial formation processes are dynamic, the racial regime remains unstable and contested. We cannot step outside of race and racism, since our society and our identities are constituted by them; we live in racial history. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 140

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘we live in racial history, cannot step outside’ claim echoes Foucault’s power-is-everywhere and Althusser’s interpellation that Winant engages nearby. — connects to: Race has no scientific basis and is purely social convention — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 98