Racial rule hides its reliance on force until crises expose it

Evidence

The McIntosh case reveals that in its visible assertibility racial rule developed into a form of crisis management (cf. Lowe 1996: 174). It is in moments of perceived crisis that the routinized obscuring of racial rule evaporates to leave evident behind it the force upon which it is necessarily predicated. It renders evident, in addition, the (threat of) violent physical enforcement that racial rule is driven to invoke so as to reinstate the threatened order. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 71

Related

• Racial rule becomes visible as crisis management when its routine obscuring breaks down (similarity 0.87)
• Late nineteenth-century racial rule became rule through law rather than raw force (similarity 0.81)
• Racial states are inherently violent, not merely exercises of power (similarity 0.79)
• States that promote violence must escalate coercion to maintain rule (similarity 0.78)