Racialized reasoning’s coherence rests on narrative force, not logical sense

Evidence

Race thinking does not have to make sense, since its coherence derives from the force of the narrative line that they are not like us. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 138

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A paradigm-level insight: race thinking is internally coherent to its believers precisely because its logic is narrative, not evidentiary.
• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on race as a socially-constructed but powerful ordering logic — Omi and Winant’s racial formation theory. — connects to: Commonsense racist assumptions make legal complicity in subordination seem logical — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 368; Reading Black means decoding commonsense assumptions that make legal subordination seem logical. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 368; Deconstructing blackness as fiction does nothing to shift racial power relations — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 64 (+1 more)