Racialized warfare thrives precisely when its terms become unspeakable

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

In its visible assertibility racial rule developed into a form of crisis management. 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. The Congo (and perhaps this is generally the case for naturalistically driven racial regimes) was perceived by the Belgians in its otherness as inherently threatening, as state crisis constantly under construction. The virtually ceaseless states of emergency under mature apartheid exemplify this notion of rule through racially fashioned crisis also. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1733 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racialization operates as a form of warfare deciding who lives and dies; Nearly every US war has been coded in explicitly racial terms.; Racial logic now operates through coded, unspeakable terms — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 280 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial rule hides its reliance on force until crises expose it #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 71
• Racial rule becomes visible as crisis management when its routine obscuring breaks down #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1733