Racial historicism and the rule of law co-evolved as instruments of dominance

Evidence

The elevation of racial historicism was not simply coincidental but co-constitutive with the rule of law as the principal medium through which racial dominance was henceforth to be maintained. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 78

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian theory derived authority from racial right rather than universal law — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 425; European historicism made racial difference explain subordination instead of colonial power. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 263; Reading judicial opinions as cultural productions exposes races’ contested origins — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 364 (+1 more)

Related

• Historicist regimes govern race by constituting it through law itself (similarity 0.85)
• Naturalist law legitimizes repression while historicist law constitutes racial order (similarity 0.84)
• Racial historicism makes racial structures invisible and absolves individuals of responsibility for them (similarity 0.83)
• Late nineteenth-century racial rule became rule through law rather than raw force (similarity 0.83)
• European historicism made racial difference explain subordination instead of colonial power. (similarity 0.82)
• Historicist racial thought fueled abolition while naturalism underpinned slavery (similarity 0.81)
• Historicist racial argumentation is harder to dismiss than biologized racism (similarity 0.81)
• Racialism is rooted in European civilization itself, not a single era (similarity 0.79)
• Legal reasoning about discrimination merely validates popular misconceptions (similarity 0.79)
• Reading judicial opinions as cultural productions exposes races’ contested origins (similarity 0.79)
• State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.79)
• Race structures all major US institutions from the colonial era onward (similarity 0.78)
• Racial theory emerges in response to historical upheavals, not abstract curiosity. (similarity 0.78)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.78)
• Racial governance splits between naturalist and historicist modes into distinct policy forms (similarity 0.78)