Racial ideology constitutes labor hierarchy rather than merely justifying it.
Evidence
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
- DEEPTHINKING: This causal-constitutive claim resists the reduction to ideology-as-rationalization and bears directly on whether threatened-privilege beliefs are downstream rationalizations or autonomous causal drivers.
- XREF: connects to: Racial ideology actively constitutes labor regimes rather than merely justifying them — 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 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Racial ideology actively constitutes labor regimes rather than merely justifying them
#corroborates(0.98) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1448 - Racial ideology constituted the labor regime rather than merely rationalizing it after the fact
#corroborates(0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1448 - Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital
#expands(0.85) - Race itself is not a rationalization but the embodiment of power relations.
#expands(0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1738 - Race operates as an active structuring principle of present society, not a residue.
#corroborates(0.75)