Race is a living disposition and passion, not merely a word or category.

Evidence

Race refuses to remain silent because it isn’t just a word. It is a set of conditions, shifting over time. Never just one thing, it is a way (or really ways) of thinking, a way(s) of living, a disposition. It is, as I have suggested in regard to racial palestinianization, a passion released or charged (up) and put in gear by events, concerns, troubles. As ways of being, living, thinking, emoting, it is both prompt and product of social tensions and catastrophes. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 827

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Goldberg’s own framing of racial palestinianization and echoes the broader claim that race operates as a force rather than a static label — parallels the reading of race as shifting conditions.