Racism splits population into valued life and devalued death.

Evidence

Within the biopolitical frame, racism performs a fundamental function, for it creates a break in the continuum of population, assigning value (life) to the superior race and lack thereof (death) to the inferior race, while also establishing a correlation between the life and death of the races. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 542

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Compresses Foucault’s biopower into a single mechanism: racism as the operation that makes killing a population politically thinkable.
• XREF: Connects to Zamyatin’s We and Parable of the Sower, where valued/unvalued life is rationed by a governing order.