Race cannot be given singular meaning nor can economy alone determine all social outcomes.

Evidence

His central intention here is to develop a mode of analysis that avoids attributing to race a singular, unitary, and transhistorical character, which is presumed to assert itself in the same way everywhere, just as he simultaneously refuses to treat “His Majesty the Economy” (in Althusser’s deathless phrase) as ultimately determining everything else. For him, the question is precisely how to understand the articulation of questions of race, ethnicity, and class and to recognize the “tendential” forms of pressure and articulation that one structural factor in a social formation exercises on another. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 297

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘articulation’ approach — race, ethnicity, and class as tendentially related structural factors rather than essentialist categories.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s engagement with Stuart Hall’s theories of articulation and Althusser’s relative autonomy — themes later in this same volume. — connects to: Race has no genetic basis yet produces real material consequences. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1112