Race war discourse frames society as a binary struggle between two races.

Evidence

The race war discourse, furthermore, was structured and predicated upon a binary conceptualization of society, two races, “them and us” (Foucault, 1997, p. 74). — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 302

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended lectures and to the biopolitics literature generally.
• DEFINE: Clarifies ‘race war discourse’ as a specific Foucauldian analytic, not a colloquial phrase.