Race retains analytic power as embrace and enclosure under neoliberalism

Evidence

Neoliberalism accordingly can be read as a response to this concern about the impending impotence of whiteness. Neoliberalism is committed to privatizing property, utilities, and social programs, to reducing state expenditures and bureaucracy, increasing efficiencies, and to individual freedom from state regulation. As the state was seen increasingly to support black employment, to increase expenditures on black education, and to increase regulation to force compliance, white neoconservatives found neoliberal commitments increasingly relevant to their interests. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1764 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial democracy prefigured today’s raceless neoliberal racism; Neoliberal ‘free choice’ masks racially marked constraints on mobility; Race functions as a core structuring technology of neoliberal state formation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1770 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism functioned as a defense against perceived erosion of white privilege #complicates (0.74) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1764