Racism emerges where race discourse meets the state
Evidence
I think that racism is born at the point when the theme of racial purity replaces that of race struggle, and when counterhistory begins to be converted into a biological racism. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 2855
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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- Racism begins when purity supplants race struggle (similarity 0.93)
- Racism exists as a variable spectrum, not a single invariant form (similarity 0.84)
- Racism shifts from discredited scientific claims to cultural arguments (similarity 0.84)
- Race is a contemporary, evolving formation rather than a premodern leftover (similarity 0.84)
- Race and racism must be distinguished analytically and politically (similarity 0.83)
- Extreme racial states come to make race stand for everything (similarity 0.83)
- Racism is reorganized by each mode of production and never reducible to other relations (similarity 0.83)
- Race theory was an instrument usable by both contending parties (similarity 0.83)
- Racial theory emerges in response to historical upheavals, not abstract curiosity. (similarity 0.83)
- Racism persists even where formal segregation laws have been abolished (similarity 0.83)
- Race scholarship has displaced class as the center of social inequality debates (similarity 0.83)
- Racism is real while race itself is a myth (similarity 0.82)
- Racelessness forms differ in their founding motives and effects (similarity 0.82)
- A racially conceived state can only express itself in racial terms (similarity 0.82)
- Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence (similarity 0.82)