Well-intentioned individuals can unknowingly contribute to racist institutional projects

Evidence

Slowly but surely a horrible truth has come to light: the smartest and best-intentioned individuals can find themselves contributing to what other cultures and later eras identify as racist and ethnocentric projects. Thus some of the most powerful recent analyses have sought to identify racist and ethnocentric assumptions of first world institutions, societies, and civilizations (or philosophic standards), ones that are to be found beyond or outside the intentions of individuals. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1559

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes that racism need not reside in individual intention, a load-bearing definition for structural accounts of racism.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1559
• XREF: connects to: Emancipatory projects can force one to oppress others whose goals one endorses — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 501; Volunteers treat active inattention to racism as a moral act — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 246; Scientists can acknowledge racist projects without conceding science’s cultural neutrality — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1554