Racially ordered freedom for whites is necessarily predicated on unfreedom

Evidence

In their racial framing, thus, the freedom of the modern state (and perhaps this is the state condition generally) is necessarily illusory. It is predicated always and necessarily on an unfreedorn both for those ruled and for those ruling. Racially ordered and manifested freedom - the freedom of whites, historically speaking - accordingly is no freedom at all. Power, generally, and racially predicated and ordered power particularly, requires always its own reproduction, its reiterated assertion, freedom’s necessity a logic of determination that at once discounts the freedom such necessity dictates (cf. Butler, 1997). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1725

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Omi & Winant and critical-race claims in the vault that white freedom is constitutively dependent on racialized unfreedom. — connects to: Racialized freedom is illusory and depends on unfreedom for rulers and ruled; Whiteness consolidated as repression of preindustrial freedom
• QUESTION: The ‘unfreedom even for those ruling’ twist is unusual and worth pursuing - how rule constrains rulers too.

Broader Connections

• Racialized freedom is illusory and depends on unfreedom for rulers and ruled #corroborates (0.95)
• Whiteness consolidated as repression of preindustrial freedom #expands (0.80)