Race is simultaneously externally imposed and freely self-assumed

Evidence

So subjection is internalized and to that extent seemingly self-designed and fashioned. The racial state, thus, could be said to strive for a racial subjection which, though usually perceived as externally imposed upon subjects, actually is self-fashioned and self-promoted. “Racial subjection” seeks as such to turn imposition into self-assumption, assertive charge into autonomous, self-imposed choice, harness into hegemony. Thus, there is no clear-cut contrast between state and individual, between asserted institutional power and capillary governmentality. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1679 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Denying race as fiction is a reaction against imposed being; The apparent erasure of race and the ongoing racial ordering are one process — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 958; The legal self-identification requirement for ethnic groups constitutes self-racialization — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 57 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial rule works by making subjects internalize and self-promote their own subjugation #complicates (0.76) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1679