The dream of racial irrelevance is race becoming literally meaningless and powerless.

Evidence

Race becomes not so much an empty category – its long history in any case is that of this emptiness being filled by divisive, demeaning, and destructive social commitments and convictions. Rather, it is irrelevant because literally meaningless, without significance, perhaps even unrecognizable, socially incomprehensible, certainly lacking any force. It simply ceases to count, to effect, to make any mark in any and all social spheres and contexts. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1622

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts the futural vision of ‘racial irrelevance’ with state ‘nonracialism,’ clarifying an important conceptual distinction.