Race is not transhistorical nor the economy ultimately determinant, only tendential pressures operate.

Evidence

His central intention in that argument is to develop a mode of analysis that avoids attributing to race a singular, unitary, and transhistorical character, which is presumed to assert itself in the same way everywhere, just as he simultaneously refuses to treat “His Majesty the Economy” as ultimately determining of everything else. For him, the question is how to recognize the “tendential” forms of pressure and articulation that one structural factor in a social formation exercises on another. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 35

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the twin anti-essentialisms of Hall’s method: refusing both transhistorical race and economic determinism, in favor of ‘tendential’ structural articulation.
• XREF: This anti-transhistorical, anti-economically-determinist stance undergirds Hall’s ‘new ethnicities’ and carries into Islamophobia readings on how anti-Muslim racism takes context-specific forms.