Racial fixity increases precisely as population heterogeneity grows
Evidence
There lies barely hidden here an apparent paradox: Precisely at the moment we find greater likelihood of de facto heterogeneity among and between population groups, however conceived or defined, the greater the denial through racial fixity and reification. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 817
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: A genuine paradox worth sitting with: state racial reification intensifies exactly when its empirical basis dissolves, suggesting the denial is reactive rather than descriptive.