Racism can serve as a strategy of war determining who lives and dies.

Evidence

This is racism not simply in the sense of systems of control and hierarchy but also in the sense of determining who lives and dies as a strategy to maintain and legitimize the authority of a colonizing force. For such a rationale, races are populations ascribed an identity as friend or enemy and, more important, are bound and contained by an ideological profile. Such racism as war demands that the technological innovations and improvisations of the military and the media both mask and justify racialization as part of the common good toward the promise of a democratic future. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 30

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘racism as war’ — a Foucauldian framing where race determines life/death under colonial authority.
• XREF: Connects to Foucault’s biopolitics and ‘society must be defended’ lectures on racism as state racism. — connects to: Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 141; A racist logic marked Iraqis as vulnerable to premature death — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 197; Racism is a rationalized disposition toward premature death, not isolated hate — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 144