Racial rule works by making subjects internalize and self-promote their own subjugation
Evidence
So subjection is internalized and to that extent seemingly self-designed and fashioned. The racial state, thus, could be said to strive for a racial subjection which, though usually perceived as externally imposed upon subjects, actually is self-fashioned and self-promoted. “Racial subjection” seeks as such to turn imposition into self-assumption, assertive charge into autonomous, self-imposed choice, harness into hegemony. Thus, there is no clear-cut contrast between state and individual, between asserted institutional power and capillary governmentality. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1679
So subjection is internalized and to that extent seemingly self-designed and fashioned. The racial state, thus, could be said to strive for a racial subjection which, though usually perceived as externally imposed upon subjects, actually is self-fashioned and self-promoted. “Racial subjection” seeks as such to turn imposition into self-assumption, assertive charge into autonomous, self-imposed choice, harness into hegemony. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1679
Categorization
- XREF: Mirrors the Gramscian hegemony concept and Foucault’s governmentality that the following paragraph explicitly invokes. — connects to: The racial state is instrumental in forming subjects and their bodies — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1707; The politics of respectability required blacks to police their own behavior against racist stereotype — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 900
- DEFINE: ‘Racial subjection’ is a key mechanism: external imposition converted into self-assumption.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1679