Racial discourse actively produces exclusion, not just retroactive justification

Evidence

Now racial expression certainly has been invoked after the fact to rationalize and legitimate already existing economic and political differentiations. But racial thinking also has promoted racially configured exclusions, subjugation, and terror by framing the very ways in which people throughout the world, internal to Europe as well as vacated to Burope’s outside, were being ordered and seen. Thus racial discourse made available for exploitation and exclusion those considered or seen as different or inferior. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 24

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the materialism vs. ideology debate — whether race is epiphenomenal to class/economics or constitutive. Resonates with standpoint-epistemology discussions already in the library. — connects to: Successful anti-racist movements trigger renewed, subtler forms of racial exclusion, not elimination — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1915; Ethnopopulists frame internal minorities as foreign fifth columns to justify their exclusion. — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 30; Exclusion is a distinct racialization process from exploitation and expropriation (+1 more)

Related

• Exclusion is a distinct racialization process from exploitation and expropriation (similarity 0.88)
• Anti-racist politics that centers race tends to reinscribe the very exclusions it opposes (similarity 0.83)
• Racism fundamentally operates as exclusion through depreciation (similarity 0.82)
• Theories of racism must treat discourse as cognition, not just practice (similarity 0.82)
• European racism shifted from labor exploitation to exclusion and segregation (similarity 0.81)
• Successful anti-racist movements trigger renewed, subtler forms of racial exclusion, not elimination (similarity 0.81)
• European racial thought is conventionally framed as a black-antisemitism dualism (similarity 0.81)
• Regional racial histories shape principal routes of exclusionary experience (similarity 0.80)
• Race is counter-historical in displacing theological modes of rationality and sociality (similarity 0.80)
• Racial discourse is a consequence, not a cause, of colonial thought (similarity 0.80)
• Socially constructed racial ideas produce real material consequences for inclusion and exclusion. (similarity 0.80)
• Essentialist anti-racist discourse reproduces the biology it claims to oppose. (similarity 0.80)
• Elite discourse reproduces racism by shaping shared mental models of minorities (similarity 0.80)
• European racial ideology predated and justified the African slave trade, not vice versa (similarity 0.79)
• Racism is transmitted through discourse, not innate (similarity 0.79)