Race itself is not a rationalization but the embodiment of power relations.

Evidence

While this is not always inaccurate, I have been arguing by contrast that race is itself the expression of relations of power. It is the embodiment and institutionalization of these relations. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1738

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the definition of race against epiphenomenalist readings common in vault sources.
• XREF: Qualifies vault-wide tendency to treat race as ideological superstructure over economic base. — connects to: Race is a social reduction to sheer force, not a natural trait — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 124; Racial ideology constitutes labor hierarchy rather than merely justifying it. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1448; Power is constitutive of social relations, not separable from them. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 446
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1738