Race and ethnicity function as political resources for both dominant and subordinate groups.

Evidence

So categories such as race and ethnicity are best conceived as political resources. They are used by both dominant and subordinate groups for the purposes of legitimizing and furthering their own social identities and interests, claims and powers. In this context it is important to remember that identities based on race and ethnicity are not only imposed, even though they often are, but they also can be formulated and fashioned through resistance. Here racially constituted minorities play a key and active role. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 107

Categorization

• XREF: Qualifies any vault content treating racial ascription as purely imposed from above; resistance re-appropriation is central to racial formation theory. — connects to: Race both drives and expresses violence, property, profit, and power — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 71
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 107