White subject positions were both cause and effect of nation-building and land-taking

Evidence

This scholarship helps make it evident that the formation of specifically white subject positions has in fact been key, at times as cause and at times as effect, to the sociopolitical processes inherent in taking land and making nations. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754

Categorization

• XREF: Supports and parallels Omi & Winant’s racial-formation claim that race is central to US sociopolitical processes — the Frankenberg formulation adds that whiteness-as-subject-position is cause AND effect, qualifying a purely structural reading. — connects to: White identity formation has been central to land-taking and nation-building — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754; US national identity was constitutively constructed as a white nation; Whiteness severs victims from land claims and legitimates ownership — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 906 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• White identity formation has been central to land-taking and nation-building #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 754
• The United States constituted itself as a racialized white nation from its origin #corroborates (0.92)
• US national identity was constitutively constructed as a white nation #expands (0.90)
• Whiteness severs victims from land claims and legitimates ownership #complicates (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 906