Racial identification is reified even when one denies it
Evidence
Second, and consequently, England has to fulfil a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating — the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the Jaying of the material foundations of Western society in Asia. … For in the “that” racial identification ironically is reified, as it is in the personal distancing from the attendant racial characterization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 32
Categorization
- QUESTION: The copying of this passage is garbled (‘Jaying’); worth checking against the original Marx text to confirm the exact phrasing.
- XREF: connects to: Settlers claim self-evident racial markers for differences they admit no outsider can perceive — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2051; The legal self-identification requirement for ethnic groups constitutes self-racialization — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 57; Claiming a new racial identity unravels when ancestry is revealed, except through passing. (+2 more)