Racial erasure renders non-whites into an ignored natural backdrop.

Evidence

Being written into the official record as not white is at once to be whitened out, so to speak, to be made part of the natural landscape, the silent backdrop in relation to which life is lived, taken for granted or passed by while being ignored. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 53

Categorization

• XREF: Nods to the reader’s sustained interest in silence-as-erasure, connecting facial erasure to the earlier silence-as-positive-presence theme. — connects to: Rendering black people invisible legitimated colonial land seizure. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 56