Race is a human construct with regulatory ideological power

Evidence

Miles has consistently opposed the notion that race is a useful analytical category, preferring what he sees as a Marxist analytic framework in which racism is viewed as integral to the process of capital accumulation (Miles, 1989). For Miles the idea of race refers to a human construct, an ideology with regulatory power within society: “The influence of racism and exclusionary practices is always a component of a wider structure of class disadvantage and exclusion” (Miles, 1989:9). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2184

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Miles’ Marxist position that race is not an analytical category but a construct of ideology, with racism embedded in capital accumulation and class exclusion.