Racialization analysis links seemingly raceless resource competition to racial boundary-making.

Evidence

But other factors such as competition for economic and political resources (education, jobs, housing, elected office) - may seem to have no “racial” reference. The racialization problematic enables us to draw out the relationship between these seemingly unrelated variables, and to assess the significance of each of them. What this conceptual approach requires, rather than presumes, is that there is a need to question and explain the social and cultural boundaries and identities by which groups called “races” have been, and continue to be, defined. The best way to do this is via an historical and comparative approach. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1854

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels how the scholarship on moral panics and the earlier chapters on racialized state policy draw connections between economic competition and race discourse. — connects to: Racialization describes how signifying processes construct social groups as races. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 36