Race-blindness works because racial order is already fully routinized

Evidence

The racial State gave way to the raceless one, the race-bound one to the supposedly race-blind one. But it could do so precisely because racial conditions and presuppositions penetrated social order so extensively, becoming routinized administratively and in everyday life. Racelessness, in short, traded on the fact that race became so readily, one might say universally, assumed. Thus racelessness is at once product and purveyor of globalized neoliberalism. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 137

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the ‘colorblind racism’ thesis of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva; also echoes the discussion of information overload in recent reading where absence becomes a consequence of saturation. — connects to: Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 129; The apparent erasure of race and the ongoing racial ordering are one process — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 958; Color-blind policy would perpetuate racial segregation without affirmative dismantling — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 342 (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: A paradigm-level inversion: the disappearance of explicit racial statehood is the strongest evidence of race’s penetration, not its decline.

Related

• The apparent erasure of race and the ongoing racial ordering are one process (similarity 0.83)
• Declaring color-blindness cannot undo entrenched racialized inequality (similarity 0.83)
• A racial state is simultaneously all-encompassing and invisible in its effects (similarity 0.82)
• Race persists under neoliberalism by mutating into coded private arrangements (similarity 0.82)
• Color blindness functions to re-anonymize racial rule after anti-racist exposure (similarity 0.81)
• Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form. (similarity 0.81)
• Colorblindness has become the hegemonic racial common sense in 21st-century America. (similarity 0.81)
• Abolishing official race language can mask persisting racialized structural inequalities as class inequalities. (similarity 0.80)
• Color-blind policies still operate in an historically racialized American society. (similarity 0.80)
• Colorblind ideology presents the ability to forget race as progress. (similarity 0.80)
• Racelessness forms differ in their founding motives and effects (similarity 0.80)
• Colorblind measures reinforce existing racial privilege despite egalitarian intent (similarity 0.80)
• Color-blind policy would perpetuate racial segregation without affirmative dismantling (similarity 0.80)
• Racial inequality does not rest only with discriminating individuals (similarity 0.79)
• Colorblind ideology reframes race consciousness itself as the racism to be ended. (similarity 0.79)