Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity

Evidence

The claim of the evaporation – the death – of race is really a claim not about racial death but about “the end,” the disappearance, of racism, seeking to evade thus the violent and deadly ends, all those threats, large and small, geopolitical and everyday, in the service of which racisms continue to be pressed into practice. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 147

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s standing interest in how euphemism and denial sustain structural violence. — connects to: Fighting-‘them-there’ war logic is race war in denial relying on racial discounting — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1855; Lies about race and labor are communicated in ways optimized for belief; Acceptable minority identity requires denying the racism one faces (+4 more)
• SEED: The claim that ‘the death of race’ discourse is really an attempt to kill off racism-talk could seed an article on post-racial ideology as a form of collective forgetting.