Privatizing race frees racism to circulate unchecked in private life

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)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The new enclosures privatize access to identity, as the old ones privatized land; Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 129; California’s 2003 Racial Privacy Initiative sought to shield private racial discrimination from state scrutiny — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1767 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal racism persists by privatizing institutional racism and dropping racial language #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1872