Racism arises from Western rationality itself, not as its archaic residue

Evidence

In this way Adorno neatly turns the tables on prejudice theory. Prejudice theory sees racial prejudice as an archaic residue, operating in the substructure of the personality, and which under certain conditions might be mobilized by political ideologies such as fascism to overwhelm rational thought. Adorno suggests that it is the very form of Western rationality that constructs the Jew as the bearer of atavistic impulses and gives rise to racism as its necessary false consciousness. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1327

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts two rival theories of prejudice causation — personality based archaic residue vs. reason’s own construction — a useful distinction for the vault’s racial-formation definitional grounding.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1327
• XREF: connects to: Scientific racism framed lack of Western knowledge as grounds for extermination — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 265