Race still delimits civil-society status even while racial talk is officially silenced

Evidence

Civil society has various ways to delimit the status of its members, if not of membership itself. What I have characterized as “born again racism” reveals that race continues to serve as a principal modality of such delimitation, even as racial reference is officially silenced. More forcefully still, publicly charging racism is increasingly considered as less than civil. All this also suggests that behind the niceties of civility, violence continues pointedly to characterize civil society. The death of civility is more pressingly the death threatened and effected behind the cloak of civility, in civil society’s name, with the acquiescence if not endorsement of the inhabitants, its citizens. The erosion of civility begins to render that social violence naked. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 290 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race quietly continues to structure membership even where racial talk is silenced. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 290; Race still delimits civil membership even when racial speech is silenced — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 290; Civil society is a racially inscribed accommodation to social domination — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 231 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Race still delimits civil membership even when racial speech is silenced #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 290