Racial divisions remain socially powerful even when their conceptual foundations are false

Evidence

Put crudely, whilst the fundamental building blocks of race thinking are themselves ethically compromised it does not make the edifice of racialized social divisions anyless powerful a mirage. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2258

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the boomerang of the social construction argument: calling race a mirage does not dissolve its real effects, paralleling the ‘quiet places vanishing’ theme where recognizing disappearance sharpens rather than soothes.