Race operates as an active structuring principle of present society, not a residue.

Evidence

Race is thus, also, the modality in which class is “lived,” the medium through which class relations are experienced, the form in which it is appropriated and “fought through.” This has consequences for the whole class, not specifically for its “racially defined” segment. It has consequences in terms of the internal fractioning and division within the working class which, among other ways, are articulated in part through race. … For racism is also one of the dominant means of ideological representation through which the white fractions of the class come to “live” their relations to other fractions, and through them to capital itself. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 637 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues; South African racism resides in its structure, not in petty officials.; Race has no biological reality but is a potent social force (+15 more)

Related

• Race is the lived medium through which class relations are experienced (similarity 0.90)
• Race is the lived modality of class, affecting the whole class. (similarity 0.90)
• Race and class must be analyzed as articulated, not causally reduced (similarity 0.87)
• Racial difference can be constructed as antagonism within a single exploited class (similarity 0.86)
• Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues (similarity 0.86)
• Racism is not necessary to the functioning of all capitalisms. (similarity 0.85)
• Race fractures the working classes internally in ways class alone cannot explain (similarity 0.85)
• Historical race relations operate as active structural principles, not residues (similarity 0.85)
• Racism is rooted in concrete material conditions, not ruling-class conspiracy or error (similarity 0.85)
• Race has no biological reality but is a potent social force (similarity 0.84)
• Racism is reorganized by each mode of production and never reducible to other relations (similarity 0.84)
• South Africa couples industrial capitalism with race as an articulating principle of social structure. (similarity 0.83)
• Race achieved maximum structural salience in apartheid South Africa compared to other societies. (similarity 0.83)
• Race and class must be articulated analytically, reduced to neither essence nor epiphenomenon. (similarity 0.83)
• Economic and sociological paradigms of race define themselves through mutual correction (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Racialization mutates with the power interests that institutionalize it, not fixed phenotypes. #expands (0.65)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #expands (0.65)
• Race and class must be analyzed as articulated, not causally reduced #expands (0.60)
• Structural utility, not ignorance, sustains Muslim racialization. #exemplifies (0.60)
• Race is the lived medium through which class relations are experienced #expands (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 637
• Racism is rooted in concrete material conditions, not ruling-class conspiracy or error #expands (0.55)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Slavery was systemic to modern capitalism, not an historical aberration. #corroborates (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 937
• A society is either racist or not; gradations are evasions. #complicates (0.35)