Race is counter-historical in displacing theological modes of rationality and sociality

Evidence

There is a broader, more provocative sense too in which race historically doesn’t just take over these terms. Even as it embeds and embodies various theological meanings, race is counter-historical in disrupting and displacing the historicity of the theological, usurping in key ways its modes of rationality, its orders of sociality, its conditions of possibility for making and counting as human. And so too its modes of exclusivity and exclusion, its abstracted forms and conditions of privilege, its logics of disruption, of violence. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1825

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines race’s relation to the theological: embedding it while usurping its modes of rationality.
• XREF: connects to: Race gained social hegemony as religion declined, becoming a secularized civic theology — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1345; Race replaced religion as modernity’s dominant public organizing frame — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 54; the MOC “The False Compass: How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self”