Racelessness reassigns responsibility for racial outcome from state structures to individuals
Evidence
Racelessness, as I have said, is the logical iraplication of racial historicism. Not only does it supposedly sweeten racial structure by diluting it in the substance of class formation; it renders individuals personally responsible — and so the agents of statefashioned social structure literally irresponsible ~ for whatever racial distinctions linger. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 123
Categorization
- XREF: Mirrors the personal-responsibility critique aimed at Sowell, and connects to liberal meritocracy debates in Communication as Culture. — connects to: Racelessness redraws public norms while privatizing the institutional mechanisms that perpetuate exclusion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 959; Emphasis on merit and racelessness accompanied shifts away from the welfare state — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1739
Related
- Racelessness still leaves citizens racially self-endowed through state media. (similarity 0.83)
- Meritocratic racelessness discourse accompanied the neoliberal retreat from the welfare state (similarity 0.82)
- Emphasis on merit and racelessness accompanied shifts away from the welfare state (similarity 0.82)
- Race lets citizens benefit from state racism while disclaiming personal responsibility (similarity 0.82)
- Racelessness redraws public norms while privatizing the institutional mechanisms that perpetuate exclusion (similarity 0.81)
- Racial historicism makes racial structures invisible and absolves individuals of responsibility for them (similarity 0.81)
- Racelessness extended racial historicism rather than contradicting it (similarity 0.81)
- The dream of racial irrelevance is race becoming literally meaningless and powerless. (similarity 0.79)
- Racism persists in raceless states by relocating from state to private civilian life (similarity 0.79)
- Scholarship has largely ignored the state’s role in reproducing racism (similarity 0.79)