Racial ideology actively constitutes labor regimes rather than merely justifying them

Evidence

Religious conversion could serve as supplement, to be sure, regulating subjects once in place. But it was ultimately racial rule and repression that produced and sustained the hierarchical regularities of the labor supply. The political theology of race was not simply an ex post facto rationalization of an already and anyway repressive regime of labor supply. It was constitutive of that regime, determining and delivering who the masters and madams and who the mine-workers, manufacturing labor, the farmworkers, gardeners, and domestics. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1448

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with Milgrom-type institutional functionalism and the reader’s own interest in whether racial ideology plays a causal role versus post-hoc rationalization. — connects to: Racial ideology constitutes labor hierarchy rather than merely justifying it. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1448; Racial ideology constituted the labor regime rather than merely rationalizing it after the fact — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1448; Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial ideology constituted the labor regime rather than merely rationalizing it after the fact #corroborates (0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1448
• Racial ideologies arise to justify exploitation already in place #contradicts (0.90)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital #expands (0.85)
• State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them #expands (0.82)
• Racism is a hegemonic practice that is articulated with, not necessary to, capitalist formations #qualifies (0.80)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Racial ideology developed to obscure the true class origins of white laborers #complicates (0.75)
• Racial ideology in America concealed class divisions among whites #qualifies (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 409