Race both drives and expresses violence, property, profit, and power

Evidence

The end(s), of course, are varied – exploitation or extermination, use and abuse, assertion and order. In short, violence and property, profit, and power, instrumentally but also for their own sakes. Race feeds, fuels, and funnels violence, property, profit, and power, but can also be their modes of expression, the forms in which they manifest. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 71

Categorization

• XREF: Race-as-channel for violence/property provides the incentive structure under which threatened-privilege mobilization pays off — aligning with the reader’s institutional-gap focus. — connects to: Race and ethnicity function as political resources for both dominant and subordinate groups. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 107; Race is about representing difference, and sites of difference are sites of power — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 108; Race operates as sacred violence purchasing order through scapegoats — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1349 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Law creates racial categories to enable plunder and profit. #corroborates (0.85)
• Race naturalizes state power by presenting created social order as given and teleological #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740
• Racialized structures distribute resources and access by race #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1828
• Race is about representing difference, and sites of difference are sites of power #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 108
• Race functions as the political theology of modernity, licensing institutional violence #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1826
• Race and ethnicity function as political resources for both dominant and subordinate groups. #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 107
• Race operates as sacred violence purchasing order through scapegoats #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1349
• Race supplies the coherence that masks arbitrary state power #expands (0.75)
• Race when invoked to categorize humans almost invariably operates as threat and disruption #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1842