Race is a contemporary, evolving formation rather than a premodern leftover

Evidence

Race is commonly assumed in the popular imagination to be an antique notion, a vestige of premodern or at least not adequately modernized social assertions and arrangements. I have written extensively against this understanding in earlier work. But in any case, the line of argument in Chapters 1 and 2 illustrates the reformation and reformulation of contemporary racial conception. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 346

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the common liberal assumption that racism is a backward failure of modernity, which shows up throughout racial-justice writing; echoes the tension between universalist modernity and lived racial hierarchy. — connects to: Race as a configuration dates only from the late eighteenth century; Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1683; Colonial differentiation between Muslims and Europeans is a precursor to race formation — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 112