State law must actively refuse racist practice rather than claim colorblindness
Evidence
Post-racist (in contrast to merely post-racial) states must be those for which state agencies, and most notably law, are vigorous both in refusing racist practice and in public representation of the unacceptability of all forms of discriminatory expression. I ar not so naive or romantically utopian as to think this would amount to the end of all social privilege, power, and profit. But it would mean the end of a particularly vicious variety, the sort that has served both as modality of expression for and a kind of multiplier of class, gender, national and indeed statebased advantage and disadvantage. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 133
Categorization
- DEFINE: Sharply distinguishes post-racist (active refusal of racism) from post-racial (assuming race is no longer relevant).
Related
- Post-racist states must transformatively redress past racial exclusions. (similarity 0.85)
- Colorblind ideology reframes race consciousness itself as the racism to be ended. (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-discrimination laws can rhetorically shield a state from charges of racism (similarity 0.80)
- A racially conceived state can only express itself in racial terms (similarity 0.80)
- States vary in how strongly racial classification penetrates their institutional apparatus (similarity 0.79)
- Racelessness forms differ in their founding motives and effects (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-racism is a refusal of race’s theologically mediated law (similarity 0.79)
- Colorblindness has become the hegemonic racial common sense in 21st-century America. (similarity 0.79)
- Opposing racial classification can substitute for and crowd out the struggle against racism (similarity 0.79)
- States can assert racial projects without ever naming race explicitly (similarity 0.78)
- Anti-racist politics that centers race tends to reinscribe the very exclusions it opposes (similarity 0.78)
- State racism ranges from passive tolerance to explicit state project (similarity 0.78)