The apparent erasure of race and the ongoing racial ordering are one process

Evidence

Obviously there have been shifts over historical time. European relation to difference, whether outside in or inside out, has become more nuanced and careful. Nevertheless European entanglements of the nature of culture and the culture of nature remain intricately, intensively, extensively, exclusionarily woven together. The silencing of race is at one with the racial markings of the social forces producing that silence. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 958

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s ongoing silence/noise thread: the silencing of race as a structural force parallels ‘silence as positive presence’ — here a silencing that actively reproduces racial markings. — connects to: Race is simultaneously externally imposed and freely self-assumed; Race-blindness works because racial order is already fully routinized — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 137; Cordial racism works by erasing race as a category and denying harm — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1798 (+8 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Top-tier idea: racelessness as an active technique of race rather than its absence — resists one-sentence summary and reframes the whole contact-era optimism.

Broader Connections

• Racial subjection works by turning external imposition into self-assumed choice #expands (0.90)
• Race is simultaneously externally imposed and freely self-assumed #expands (0.85)
• Cordial racism works by erasing race as a category and denying harm #exemplifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1798
• Race’s apparent naturalness conceals the labor that reproduces racial arrangements #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 58
• Race-blindness works because racial order is already fully routinized #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 137
• Racial historicism makes racial structures invisible and absolves individuals of responsibility for them #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 123
• Racism operates as a changing process rather than a fixed project #corroborates (0.80)
• Reducing race to ethnicity erases the body as a marker of domination and resistance #expands (0.75) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 54
• Recasting race as ethnicity allows a racial hierarchy to persist unnoticed. #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3199