Racial categories lodge in bodies and re-emerge as political positions.

Evidence

Characterizations of people and things not only lodge in the tenacious hold of words: they burrow into bodies and then re-emerge as resurrected knowledge, upholding oppositional positions as they take on new political forms. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 993

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader colonial archival concerns about how categories sediment into bodies and are redeployed politically. — connects to: State-imposed categories become available identity bases for subsequent political entrepreneurs. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 574