Racism generates race through repeated practice, not difference perception.

Evidence

It is more accurate as a consequence to speak of a racially fashioned or created (or more commonly, if awkwardly, of a “racialized”) group than of a racial group since race is a product of racism and not vice versa. It is also and relatedly important to note that the now popular if overused notion of “racialization” and its cognates (“racialize,” “racialized”) are ambiguous. They fail in their often facile usage to distinguish descriptive context from normative critique, analysis from dismissal, processes of race-making from critical rejection of racist implications. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 107 (#expands, via linked claim)

Racism differs from both heterophobia and contestant enmity. The difference lies neither in the intensity of sentiments nor in the type of argument used to rationalize it. Racism stands apart by a practice of which it is a part and which it rationalizes: a practice that combines strategies of architecture and gardening with that of medicine – in the service of the construction of an artificial social order, through cutting out the elements of the present reality that neither fit the visualized perfect reality, nor can be changed so that they do. In a world that boasts the unprecedented ability to improve human conditions by reorganizing human affairs on a rational basis, racism manifests the conviction that a certain category of human beings cannot be incorporated into the rational order, whatever the effort. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 189 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Race exists only as a specter produced by racism, not as reality; Racism creates races through practice, and the practice hides itself as its own evidence — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 322; Race is a product of racism, not its cause. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 107 (+8 more)

Related

• Racism is real but race is only an idea manufactured by racist practice. (similarity 0.90)
• Race emerges from prior racist practice, not from perceived difference (similarity 0.88)
• Racism is defined by its practice, not by intensity or rationalization (similarity 0.85)
• Race exists only as a specter produced by racism, not as reality (similarity 0.85)
• Racism creates races through practice, and the practice hides itself as its own evidence (similarity 0.85)
• Race is a product of racism, not its cause. (similarity 0.84)
• Racism predates anti-Blackness and produces each distinct race. (similarity 0.82)
• Race is a product of racism, so groups are racialized rather than racial. (similarity 0.82)
• Racism transmitted through normal routine practices goes unrecognized and unacknowledged (similarity 0.82)
• Races are produced by racism, not biology, through imperial practice (similarity 0.81)
• If race is social, race is an amalgam of practices, not proxies like phenotype (similarity 0.81)
• Racism is real while race itself is a myth (similarity 0.81)
• Everyday racism operates through familiar routine practices that actualize underlying racial relations (similarity 0.81)
• Race is a medium that transforms contingent attributes into supposed essences (similarity 0.81)
• Racecraft frames race as the cause and racism as its effect, hiding the reverse (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Race is a product of racism, so groups are racialized rather than racial. #expands (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 107
• Racism is defined by its practice, not by intensity or rationalization #corroborates (0.80) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 189
• Racism works by making the dominated experience themselves as Other. #exemplifies (0.75)