Official silence on race in Europe reinforces daily interracial casualness.

Evidence

Second, and already hinted at in producing the first movement, there is the official denial of racial classification and reference, a strong suppression of the possibility of racial characterization certainly in official state expression, the silencing of any formal racial reference reinforcing informal civility and casualness. State and civil society, the official line would have it, conform one with another. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 945

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the ‘color-blind’ ideology and how formal silence on race paradoxically sustains informality — echoes the reader’s work on silencing and how absence becomes presence.