Socially constructed race still drives real-world outcomes for groups

Evidence

Among sociologists it is common to talk about different forms of racism, processes of ‘racialization’, and even ‘racism without races’. The notion that ‘race’ is a social construct is more familiar today and indeed widely affirmed even outside the university and across the political spectrum. Just because something is a social construct, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t drive or explain individual and group outcomes in the real world. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 105

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘racism without races’ and racialization framing is a hallmark of the critical-Muslim-studies/decolonial camp the reader is tracking. — connects to: Race’s specificity is positional rather than essential yet remains real; Groups are real for social science and anti-racist politics despite lacking shared essences. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 593; Socially constructed races still drive real-world outcomes and were invented to justify slavery — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 110 (+4 more)

Related

• Race’s specificity is positional rather than essential yet remains real (similarity 0.91)
• Socially constructed races still drive real-world outcomes and were invented to justify slavery (similarity 0.89)
• Race is socially constructed rather than biologically real but has powerful social effects (similarity 0.85)
• Groups are real for social science and anti-racist politics despite lacking shared essences. (similarity 0.85)
• Race is social construction with real material consequences, not biology (similarity 0.85)
• Racism is real while race itself is a myth (similarity 0.84)
• Race has no genetic basis yet produces real material consequences. (similarity 0.84)
• Race exists only as a specter produced by racism, not as reality (similarity 0.84)
• Race has no biological reality but is a potent social force (similarity 0.84)
• Racism rests on pseudo-scientific race accounts that justify inequality. (similarity 0.83)
• Racialization analysis targets groups marked by race, not prejudice itself. (similarity 0.83)
• Racialization describes how signifying processes construct social groups as races. (similarity 0.83)
• Racism is real but race is only an idea manufactured by racist practice. (similarity 0.83)
• Race is an unstable, fully-fledged social fact like class or gender (similarity 0.82)
• Races are produced by racism, not by biology (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Race has no biological reality but is a potent social force #corroborates (0.90)
• Racism functions as practices that ascribe and legitimate social positions #expands (0.80)
• Race is the lived medium through which class relations are experienced #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 637
• Racial difference can be constructed as antagonism within a single exploited class #exemplifies (0.75)