States can assert racial projects without ever naming race explicitly

Evidence

The institutionalization of race by the state, its routinized assumption in the structure of state institutions, has made it possible for contemporary states to assert themselves racially without explicit invocation of racial terms (Goldberg, 2001: ch. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1718

Categorization

• XREF: This is essentially colorblind racism as state practice — connects to Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s work on racism without racists and to ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ for how power signals work without explicit markers. — connects to: Australian statutes list allied race concepts without defining their relationship to ‘race’. — Mareike Riedel, Islamophobia, Racial Discrimination…, 28
• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that institutionalization lets race operate silently — structurally entrenched yet deniable — is a paradigm-shifting point worth sitting with.