Racelessness forms differ in their founding motives and effects

Evidence

Colorblindness and racial democracy are distinct from non-racialism and multiculturalism, at least under one set of interpretations. The former were each fashioned explicitly as forms of political and social evasion, at least initially, while the latter grew out of critical commitments even as they quickly assumed more accommodating and so pacifying expression. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 117

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s notes on how ideal-types in political theory often collapse historical distinctness into one analytic bucket.

Related

• Racelessness extended racial historicism rather than contradicting it (similarity 0.86)
• Colorblind ideology reframes race consciousness itself as the racism to be ended. (similarity 0.83)
• Color-blind ideology masks ongoing discrimination while appearing egalitarian (similarity 0.82)
• Colorblind ideology presents the ability to forget race as progress. (similarity 0.82)
• Colorblindness ideology rearticulated civil rights gains into a new racism (similarity 0.82)
• Colorblindness has become the hegemonic racial common sense in 21st-century America. (similarity 0.82)
• Colorblind formalism rescued racism when movements threatened its material order. (similarity 0.81)
• Failing race paradigms left a vacuum that neoconservatism and colorblind ideology filled (similarity 0.81)
• Denouncing race itself becomes the new racism’s containment tactic. (similarity 0.81)
• Colorblind antiracialism gains force only after partial antiracist gains begin succeeding (similarity 0.81)
• Race and racism must be distinguished analytically and politically (similarity 0.80)
• Color-blind policies still operate in an historically racialized American society. (similarity 0.80)
• Race-blindness works because racial order is already fully routinized (similarity 0.80)
• Color-blind rhetoric reframed race-specific remedies as the true racism (similarity 0.80)
• Race consciousness can serve either democratic or despotic ends. (similarity 0.80)