Racial neoliberalism reconciles personal preference with history-shaped racial constraint

Evidence

Now the terms of racial neoliberalism seek to satisfy both socio-conceptual masters: that of personal preference and power, and that of racial histories shaping preferences. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1803

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills the theoretical core of racial neoliberalism into a single dual-masters formulation.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal urban governance produces racially differentiated poverty through market mechanisms — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 5; the MOC “The False Compass: How Racial Categories Reorder Bodies, Minds, and the Self”