Racial distinctions can be deployed as economic discrimination devices

Evidence

“Little effort was made to raise the standard of living or increase the opportunities of the class of slaves and servants. In this manner, the limited wealth of the Colony became the privilege of its white population… Thus early did South Africa learn that a self-conscious group may escape the worst effects of life in a poor and unprosperous land by turning distinctions of race and colour into devices for social and economic discrimination” (ibid. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2318

Categorization

• DEFINE: Mechanism: race-thinking converted into a labor-market exclusion device — a bridge concept toward how racialization serves economic stratification.
• XREF: connects to: Workplace claims-making power is shaped by race and gender status. — Ken-Hou Lin & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Financialization and U.S. Income…, 106; Housing-market discrimination makes purportedly free market choices illusory — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 317; Disaggregated life valuations would embed racial discrimination while denying it — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 304