Race as static identity undermines the case that whiteness is socially produced

Evidence

The second quote, taken from an essay by the psychologist Robert Carter, enrages me since it illustrates the tendency mentioned above to give substance to the notion of “race” as a static and unchangeable fact of identity that marks groups of people for life regardless of their behavior and beliefs; in my view this undermines the whole project of demonstrating that whiteness is an exclusive social category produced through history. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 766

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Scholars of whiteness divide between affirming a positive white identity and abolishing whiteness entirely — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 769; Whiteness is a constructed American identity whose real prize was class admission — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 66; Race is an unreal myth that racism itself produces through fluid identities — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 39 (+2 more)