Racelessness extended racial historicism rather than contradicting it

Evidence

In South Africa, nonracialism became the rallying figure of the Freedom Charter in the mid-1950s. It expressed much the same commitments as colorblindness in the US, fueling antiand post-apartheid organizing. Racelessness, far from inconsistent with racial historicism, was its contemporary extension, as I argued at length in The Racial State. In one sense the perfect representative and outcome of expansionist globalizing space-time-compression, racelessness came to conjure the cultural corollary for emergent neoliberal political economies. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1738

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the author’s own The Racial State argument, and to the US colorblindness vs. nonracialism parallel.