Race is about representing difference, and sites of difference are sites of power

Evidence

Racism, by extension, is an expression of racially predicated or manifested social and political relations of domination, subordination, and privilege. Racism operates by positioning subjects old and new to exclusionary or demeaning purposes. Race is about the representation of difference. Sites of difference are also sites of power, a power in terms and by means of which the dominated come to see and experience themselves as “Other,” as alien and strange. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 108

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames race as representation of difference and racism as positioning to exclusion: a tight conceptual definition.
• XREF: connects to: Workplace claims-making power is shaped by race and gender status. — Ken-Hou Lin & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Financialization and U.S. Income…, 106; Race both drives and expresses violence, property, profit, and power — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 71