Racial historicism makes racial structures invisible and absolves individuals of responsibility for them

Evidence

Naturalistically racist assumptions give way via racial historicism to the neutral judgments of objective assessment the racial codes for which are. nevertheless rendered imperceptible. Social seams remain sewn with racial threads now purged of all responsibility for their (re)production. Autogenerated, they are simply the way things are; social subjects abrogate responsibility for all but their own subjective expression guiltlessly enjoying at once the benefits of social positioning or suffering the slights of social subjection historistically fashioned. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 123

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spells out what racial historicism means in operation: naturalistic racism evolved into ‘objective’ judgment whose racial coding is imperceptible.
• XREF: connects to: European historicism made racial difference explain subordination instead of colonial power. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 263; The apparent erasure of race and the ongoing racial ordering are one process — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 958; A racial state is simultaneously all-encompassing and invisible in its effects — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1658 (+2 more)

Related

• Racialism is rooted in European civilization itself, not a single era (similarity 0.83)
• Historicist racism grants colonized peoples only potential, not actual, universal agency (similarity 0.83)
• Racial historicism and the rule of law co-evolved as instruments of dominance (similarity 0.83)
• European historicism made racial difference explain subordination instead of colonial power. (similarity 0.83)
• Historicist racial thought fueled abolition while naturalism underpinned slavery (similarity 0.83)
• The apparent erasure of race and the ongoing racial ordering are one process (similarity 0.82)
• Historicist racial argumentation is harder to dismiss than biologized racism (similarity 0.82)
• Racelessness reassigns responsibility for racial outcome from state structures to individuals (similarity 0.81)
• Racialism is an enduring principle of European civilization, not a modern invention (similarity 0.81)
• Racial divisions remain socially powerful even when their conceptual foundations are false (similarity 0.80)
• Historicist regimes govern race by constituting it through law itself (similarity 0.80)
• Race lets citizens benefit from state racism while disclaiming personal responsibility (similarity 0.80)
• Racial inequality does not rest only with discriminating individuals (similarity 0.80)
• A racial state is simultaneously all-encompassing and invisible in its effects (similarity 0.80)
• Race and ethnicity cannot be understood apart from historical context. (similarity 0.80)