David Theo Goldberg — The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism

1179 published claims from this book.

• 1820 British settlement of the Cape mixed rich investors with destitute families
• 1967 solidified a quasi-colonial regional order tied to US alignment
• A 1948 Israeli military plan explicitly ordered village destruction and expulsion
• A 2005 Belgian museum exhibit framed colonialism as modernization
• A Dada founder’s artist colony replaced a Palestinian farming village
• A failed coup attempt made the Transvaal government more compliant with mining interests
• A half-century of formal racial suppression produced casual everyday interracial intercourse.
• A major European museum still presents Belgian colonial rule as a civilizing mission
• A modicum of Khoi civil protection existed under early Company rule
• A persecuted people can become oppressors in founding their own state
• A quarter of Israeli soldiers admitted to gratuitously humiliating Palestinians.
• A quarter of Mexico’s population was racially mixed by the late eighteenth century
• A raceless society denies racism while constantly re-invoking the terms of its denial.
• A self-organizing Black Europe movement is emerging to contest European self-narration
• A Sharpeville massacre victim’s death converted an insider to anti-apartheid activism
• A single democratic state is the only viable alternative to racialized partition
• A single eighth of black ancestry blocked Indian hierarchical advancement in caste logic
• A single massacre could convert an apartheid insider into its leading critic
• A sizeable share of Afrikaners today carry mixed-race ancestry despite apartheid’s denial
• A society’s civility has a racial and perceptual character distinct from its specific civilities.
• A state claiming to represent all Jews compels every Jew to critique its injustices
• A third to two-fifths of Americans endorse special restrictions on Muslims.
• A tiny violent minority’s actions justify a vast national security state
• A top Bush advisor urged Americans to forget slavery as civic necessity.
• A truth commission focused only on individual acts buries institutional violence
• A welfare state targets structural deficits while a neoliberal state targets crime and securitization
• Abolishing official race language can mask persisting racialized structural inequalities as class inequalities.
• Abolitionism was necessarily also an antiracist movement because slavery ran on racial technologies.
• Abolitionist slave resistance first publicly exposed race’s unequal burden
• Abolitionists confined Africans to a more primitive stage of human development.
• Absolute sovereign power requires loyal protection that breeds paranoia
• Abstract self-determination claims coexisted with practical dispossession of Palestinians
• Abu Ghraib torture was framed as individual aberration rather than institutional culture
• Academic intellectuals guided the theological framework that formalized apartheid
• Accusing Jewish critics of self-hatred may betray hatred of those Jews.
• Acknowledging death’s enormity can itself erase the racial dimension
• Affirmative action was recast as the truest form of racism.
• African American ties to Africa are strained by Africans’ role in the slave trade
• Afrikaans was born from enslaved women’s kitchen communication with their owners.
• Afrikaans was born in enslaved women’s kitchens as a language of cultural translation
• Afrikaans was born in the kitchen translation demands of enslavement.
• Afrikaner collective identity inverted nearly every Dutch cultural trait in reaction to racial mixture
• Afrikaner domination was framed as divine calling and destiny, not rationalized self-interest
• Afrikaner identity crystallized from the perceived twin threats of British and black
• Afrikaner religious intensification tracked Dutch imperial decline and economic depression.
• Afrikaner segregationism rested on degeneration fears and racial historicism
• All cultures are heterogeneous mixtures, making purity-versus-hybridity a false dichotomy
• All cultures develop heterogeneously through borrowing and theft
• All later South African resistance debates trace to Paerl’s 1788 revolt questions
• American antiracists and anticolonial activists shared organized networks from 1911 onward.
• American broadcast censors protect racial slurs while censoring sexual language
• American ghetto segregation was a post-Reconstruction urban development, not a plantation legacy
• American racial exceptionalism is actually interdependent with other regimes
• American racial logics now serve as template and testing ground for Palestinian dispossession
• American racism shifted from constitutionalized segregation to privatized preference-driven apartness
• American support for Israel might falter if Israel’s Jews were visibly Mizrahi
• An 1788 Khoikhoi prophet channeled messianic religion into anti-colonial revolt
• An early colonial letter invoked the biblical curse of Ham to racialize blacks
• ANC founders’ missionary and US education shaped their pluralist politics
• Anomalous state violence hides in plain view and becomes routine institutional practice.
• Anti-apartheid linked antiracist struggle to democratic definition worldwide
• Anti-apartheid rhetoric channeled metropolitan antiracist energies
• Anti-apartheid struggles directly fueled Western multicultural movements
• Anti-discrimination laws can rhetorically shield a state from charges of racism
• Anti-Muslim expulsion sentiment on European soil echoes Morisco-era emotions.
• Anti-Muslim rhetoric has been mainstreamed across right-left ideological divides in the US
• Anti-Palestinian sentiment operates as a passion, not just an ideology.
• Anti-racism is a refusal of race’s theologically mediated law
• Antiapartheid struggles connected local antiracism to democratic political definition worldwide
• Anticipatory status threat against Indian businessmen, not just Africans, drove apartheid’s formative legislation.
• Anticipatory threat of mixture forged Afrikaner ethnic mobilization and racial theology.
• Anticipatory threats of dissolution and extinction drove apartheid’s creation
• Anticolonial and civil-rights movements pursued complementary goals against overlapping racial structures
• Anticolonial and US civil rights struggles form one interconnected antiracist mobilization.
• Anticolonialism and civil rights shared core antiracist aims despite different targets
• Antifascism and antiracism are analytically distinct commitments
• Antiracial colorblindness erases the very vocabulary needed to press racial claims
• Antiracialism abandons the category of race while leaving racist conditions intact
• Antiracialism demands abandoning race discourse while leaving racist conditions untouched
• Antiracialism is whiteness by another name disarming antiracist struggle
• Antiracialism is whiteness by another name, done through decategorization
• Antiracialism opposes racial categories while antiracism opposes imposed racial conditions.
• Antiracialism opposes the category of race without opposing racialized living conditions
• Antiracism and antifascism differ by aim, not merely by what they oppose
• Antiracism demands life-or-death commitment; antiracialism never does
• Antiracist movements admitted the excluded but ceded definitional power to whites
• Antiracist movements admitted the excluded without ceding defining power over criteria
• Antiracist movements are political struggles for self-determination and full political participation
• Antiracist movements claim generalizable freedom while anti-antisemitism insists on Jewish exceptionalism
• Antiracist movements sought to transform racial status quo
• Antiracist movements that crack open institutions trigger an immediate formalist backlash.
• Antiracist resistance can operate by acting out the racial stereotype to undercut it
• Antiracist success gives way to antiracialism fixating on categorization over economics
• Antiracist victories across three eras were each defused by formal legal colorblindness
• Antisemitism’s antirace struggle claims exceptionalism while other antiracist movements claim universalism.
• Any group defined as a racial object finds its identity mediated through death
• Apartheid absolutized sovereign power through racial depersonalization and ascription.
• Apartheid apartheid cut black life expectancy by nearly 15 years while enforced knowledge asymmetry
• Apartheid collapsed partly because its collectivism clashed with global neoliberal individualism
• Apartheid demolished a thriving mixed-race neighborhood precisely because it embodied racial mixing
• Apartheid destroyed Sophiatown precisely because it embodied vibrant racial mixing
• Apartheid elevated all whites as the ruling class, not just Afrikaners.
• Apartheid emerged from South Africa’s modernizing history, not an anomaly
• Apartheid erased Sophiatown and renamed its rubble Triomf as racialized housing
• Apartheid fell out of step with neoliberal globalization’s individualism
• Apartheid functioned as a genuine theology, not merely a civic religion, centering racial sacralization
• Apartheid functioned as a genuine theology, not merely a religion-like ideology.
• Apartheid functioned as a religious conviction demanding sacrifice and communal devotion
• Apartheid functioned as political principle as much as economic rationalization.
• Apartheid fused racial hierarchy with a fascist aesthetic of ordination
• Apartheid grew out of South Africa’s modernization, not as an oddity.
• Apartheid grew out of whites’ racialized fear of contamination and extinction
• Apartheid ideology framed Afrikaner rule as divine calling and destiny
• Apartheid naturalized race rhetorically while shifting racial categories to serve white self-interest.
• Apartheid needed little rationalization because it rested on divine mandate
• Apartheid originated as a church self-governance doctrine generalized across the whole polity
• Apartheid police treated tortured black bodies as sacrifice to destroy evidence and memory
• Apartheid residential segregation began as missionary-sponsored separatism in 1834
• Apartheid rested on commitments that were simultaneously political principle and economic rationalization.
• Apartheid security forces tortured and destroyed black bodies as ritual sacrifice
• Apartheid targeted racial mixing as the central site of resistance
• Apartheid treated race as overdetermining while Latin America treated it as merely qualifying.
• Apartheid unified all whites as beneficiaries, not just Afrikaners, beyond mere demographic expediency
• Apartheid was codified into law by an intellectual elite within a single decade
• Apartheid’s ‘separate development’ was framed as God-ordained equal access to unequal resources
• Apartheid’s 1960s boom plus repression empirically refuted liberal modernization theory
• Apartheid’s ideology of separate development was grounded in theologically-ordained racial difference.
• Apartheid’s ideology rested on God-ordained separate-but-equal racial development
• Apartheid’s land was thoroughly culturally mixed from colonization’s start
• Apartheid’s legal structure predates its theological rationale, which the Church supplied
• Apartheid’s political doctrine was generalized from a theological principle of separate churches
• Apartheid’s prime ministers explicitly justified the racial order as divine will.
• Apartheid’s racial order rested on direct theological self-legitimation, not post-hoc rationalization.
• Apartheid’s regime drew genuine self-sacrifice from its committed white defenders.
• Apartheid’s segregation doctrine was generalized from church self-governance to the whole polity.
• Applying a female soldier as first charged displaces abuse onto gendered individual failure.
• Archaeology and renaming manufacture an originary claim to contested land
• Architects of apartheid themselves descended from the mixed-race unions they suppressed
• Arendt located evil in the refusal to think, not in monstrosity
• Arguing for a binational single state does not entail antisemitism.
• Armed non-state groups emerge to replace states that abandon caretaking for pure repression
• As apartheid’s justifications failed, its founding urgency became defensive violence.
• As black urbanization grew so did intra-city residential segregation
• Ascription of racial identity drives both compliance with and resistance to the stereotype
• Australia’s ‘White Australia’ sentiment persists beneath explicit policy abandonment.
• Banning racial data collection protects private discrimination from scrutiny
• Baptism, not race, originally determined who could marry at the Cape
• Bearing witness from temporal distance is a distinct civic mode of testimony
• Being labeled uncivil marks those outside dominant social consensus as threats.
• Being murderous without restraint is inherently self-destructive
• Being nominally in a society does not mean being of it
• Belgian colonial authorities legally defended conscripting four-year-olds against their parents’ will.
• Belgian colonial museums erased European slavery while blaming Arab slave traders
• Belgian colonists framed their own atrocities as mild next to alleged native savagery.
• Belgian museology reframes colonial massacres as nostalgia for lost imperial glory
• Belgium’s own commission admitted forced labor was criminal yet necessary.
• Belief in heritable group traits is racialism, distinct from racism
• Belief in racial difference without hierarchy is not yet racism
• Belief in racial traits need not constitute racism unless it asserts hierarchy
• Believing race should end can substitute for fighting racism itself
• Biblical land-redemption ideology distinguishes Israeli settler colonialism from classic settler modes.
• Black Americans face poverty at double the national rate without support.
• Black and Chinese ghettoization persisted longer than European immigrant segregation.
• Black and Latino neighborhoods were far more segregated than white ethnic enclaves
• Black residence shifted from southern rural areas to hyper-segregated northern cities
• Black South Africans converted missionary uplift theology into liberation struggle convictions.
• Black South Africans sided with the British despite British equivocation
• Blame localized to individual rogues erases systemic racism as a concept
• Bodily mutilation operates as state-endorsed silencing that strips civic identity
• Boer grievance focused on losing privileged control over natives
• Boers supposedly trekked away to escape British liberal racial policies
• Border enforcement devolved onto private vigilantes who read national belonging as white character
• Border enforcement devolves to private groups claiming character-based national belonging.
• Botanical gardens remade colonial landscapes into idealized European countryside
• Brazil’s census-identified mixed population doubled while its black population halved across sixty years
• Brazil’s Lula era advanced black rights via affirmative action and anti-racism law
• Brazil’s nominal racial democracy masks stark black-white structural disparities
• Brazil’s racial democracy celebrated mixture while keeping whiteness as the standard of value
• Brazil’s racial democracy enshrined mixing while secretly indexing superiority to white European stock
• Brazilian color terms signal virtue rather than describe actual skin tone
• Brazilian cordial racism is a mannered, race-denying form of exclusion
• Brazilian slavery was as violent as elsewhere despite more manumission and sexual mixing
• Brazilians deny personal prejudice while overwhelmingly endorsing stereotyping beliefs
• British abolition of slavery directly triggered the Great Trek
• British abolition of slavery triggered the Great Trek secessionist movement
• British and boer regimes converged on segregation, cheap labor, and racial superiority
• British colonial racism framed itself as progressivist educability versus boer naturalism
• British colonial rule converted heterogeneous Ottoman communities into segregated ethnoracial polities
• British colonial rule created ethnoracial divisions where pluralistic communal life existed.
• British colonies enforced racial segregation decades before the boer republics did
• British concessions deliberately consolidated Afrikaner national identity with ruling aspirations
• British concessions transformed the boers into the self-conscious Afrikaner nation
• British expansion into the Cape originated in global trade and sea-power motives.
• British governors framed Xhosa as barbarous to justify pushing them back
• British industrial capital intensified rather than moderated South African racial order
• British mandate rule reorganized a cosmopolitan Ottoman order into divided sectarian communities.
• British mine capital initially preferred color-blind labor markets but capitulated to color bars
• British settlers adopted boer racial dispositions once moving beyond the Cape
• Broadcast censorship norms permitted anti-black and anti-Asian slurs but bleeped profanity
• Bush’s compassionate conservatism combined social-safety retrenchment with unjustified foreign devastation.
• By 1800 a quarter of Mexico’s population was racially mixed
• California’s 2003 Racial Privacy Initiative sought to shield private racial discrimination from state scrutiny
• California’s Racial Privacy Initiative would have blocked tracking of discrimination data
• Calvinist divine election hardened racial boundaries against earlier Catholic monogenism
• Camps named the death-adjacent Jew ‘Muselmann,’ linking Muslim imagery with dying
• Cape racial governance arrived with Enlightenment and British rule, not Dutch
• Cape settlers imported the biblical Ham myth to rationalize racial control by 1707
• Capital abandoned color-blind hiring under white worker pressure
• Capital initially opposed job color bars but capitulated to white worker pressure and racism
• Cartographic naming or omitting names legitimizes colonial claims to inhabited land
• Cash hut and poll taxes forced rural Africans into wage labor
• Casta categories emerged from everyday life, not systematic design.
• Casta paintings animalized mixed-race people as mere copycats of European culture
• Casta paintings codified colonial Latin America’s ranked racial order
• Casta paintings literally marked near-white women with a black dot at the temple
• Casta paintings mapped racial descent onto economic class position
• Casta paintings marked visibly white-passing mixed women with a black dot to signal blackness
• Casta taxonomy assigned more categories to Indian-black mixing than other pairings
• Centering the Holocaust erases Europe’s own colonial history
• Charging the sole woman soldier for Abu Ghraib abuses symbolically displaced institutional guilt.
• Choosing the moreno category signals aesthetic embrace of color tied to whiteness-linked privilege
• Civil rights victories secured legal gains that coexist with deepened material inequality
• Civil society discourse flourishes because state theory itself has declined.
• Civil society discourse is invoked selectively, denied to certain Muslim states
• Civil society functions as a management apparatus for social domination
• Civil society institutions emerged to absorb and legitimate racialized relations of domination.
• Civil society is a racially inscribed accommodation to social domination
• Civil society is embedded in the private-public lordship tension
• Civil society is itself chronically uncivil and cannot be idealized
• Civil society is romanticized as the reservoir of democratic possibility
• Civil society makes state repression livable yet also feeds resistance to it
• Civilian crowd shields halted targeted Israeli bombing by raising the political cost
• Civility becomes a rational self-protection strategy when states fail
• Civility can privatize public power and socialize arbitrary rule.
• Civility demands that the dominated feel grateful for their own subordination.
• Civility depends on negotiating difference and dies with racial sameness
• Civility discourse smuggles in exclusion of those deemed different
• Civility discourse surges when destruction, degradation, and state decline threaten.
• Civility discourse ties social decline to urban diversity and incivility
• Civility functions as a form of class rule by privatizing social order
• Civility functions as the behavioral glue binding civil society and state
• Civility is a consensus bargain that brands dissent as unworthy rowdiness.
• Civility is the society-level sensibility while civilities are local expressions
• Civility masks the egoism and violence of those who claim refined manners
• Civility means being named, mutilation strips identity
• Civility veils rather than ends sanctioned state violence
• Civility veils socially sanctioned violence rather than ending it.
• Civilization is the project of rendering violence invisible and virtual
• Civilizational ranking justifies denying Millian civility to colonized peoples
• Civilizing modernization enables the state’s licensed violence
• Claims of historical inevitability are enforced through lethal weaponry.
• Claims that race has died actually deny continuing racism
• Claims that race is dead really seek to declare racism ended
• Claims to civilization often mask violence and egoism
• Classic racisms located race as an external colonial invader threatening European homogeneity
• Close proximity to the colonized intensified settlers’ drive for racial distinction
• Cold War competition pressured the US toward race-neutral governance.
• Collateral damage is the intended point of terrorism war, not its side effect
• Collateral damage is war’s core logic, not its side effect
• Collective melancholia arises from failing to realize democratic ideals while denying the failure.
• Colombia’s civil war displaced Afro-Colombians into an invisible shantytown named for Mandela
• Colonial ‘civilizing mission’ was itself the savagery it projected.
• Colonial ‘scientific study’ projected the very savagery it claimed to find
• Colonial administrators’ moral horror deadened with each successive killing.
• Colonial Casta paintings envisioned unmixable barbarian Indians beyond redemption.
• Colonial censure targeted mixed offspring more than the act of mixing
• Colonial encounter simultaneously produced urban modernity, robust mixture, and ruled racial division
• Colonial genocide in the Congo preceded and prefigured Nazi genocide
• Colonial goodwill decrees failed without institutional enforcement and local backing
• Colonial labor flows and racial subjugation predated and founded modern globalization.
• Colonial maps erased native settlement to designate empty Lockean land
• Colonial museums acknowledge their racist pasts only under belated public pressure
• Colonial museums reduced African adults to infants and objects of penetrable nakedness
• Colonial observers framed African peoples as biblical Ham’s cursed descendants
• Colonial officials openly justified forced labor as necessary despite admitting its criminality.
• Colonial powers denied cultural influence from below while absorbing it everywhere
• Colonial racial ideas traveled constantly between Europe and the Cape.
• Colonial racial mixture was permitted locally but barred from the metropole
• Colonial racial ranking assumed male blood carried greater potency than female blood.
• Colonial racial rationalization seeped back into the imperial metropoles
• Colonial racial taxonomy mapped animal coloring onto mixed-race offspring.
• Colonial slavery and the Holocaust share racially evaporated death
• Colonial violence quickly desensitized its administrators to killing.
• Colonized speakers of European languages are judged by physical appearance, not fluency
• Colorblind antiracialism gains force only after partial antiracist gains begin succeeding
• Colorblind formalism rescued racism when movements threatened its material order.
• Colorblind mestizaje narratives re-suppress already marginalized racial subjects
• Commerce in Belgian slavery restarted with colonial racism, not self-interest
• Complicity in apartheid is distinct from committed conviction
• Complicity with a regime differs from conviction-based commitment to it
• Concealed police footage reveals racial violence as performed fantasy for the group
• Conceptions of liberty are themselves constituted through violence.
• Conservatives attacked state capacity to curtail antiracist policy without appearing racist
• Containment violence and liberation counter-violence both operate through constraint
• Contemporary racism and neoliberalism are mutually constitutive forces needing a new analytic vocabulary
• Cooperation and racial suspicion coexisted on the frontier
• Cordial racism legitimizes inequality by refusing to name race as its cause
• Cordial racism works by erasing race as a category and denying harm
• Corporate multiculturalism can function as appeasement for the marginalized
• Critical regionalism resists homogenization wherever racial states impose it
• Critical scholarship can fuse passionate engagement with rigorous analytical method
• Criticizing Israeli state policy is not antisemitic and does not endanger Jews.
• Criticizing Israeli state policy need not constitute antisemitism
• Critics of racism are dismissed as paranoid whistleblowers under racial neoliberalism.
• Cross-racial colonial intimacies licensed women’s relative privilege and power
• Cuban remittances flowed mostly to white families, perpetuating racial inequality under socialism
• Cultural homogeneity is purchased through severe repression and invites its own resistance
• Cultural homogeneity is sustained only by repression and purging difference
• Cultural homogeneity produces presumptions that ground stereotypes
• Cultural mixing exceeds racial mixing precisely because it goes unobserved
• Cultural mixing outpaced racial mixing at the colonial Cape despite policing.
• Culture’s inherent heterogeneity makes its own identity a perpetual threat to itself
• Cultures built on subjugation provoke destruction from the suppressed.
• Cumulative micro-aggressions compound into vulnerability to structural violence
• Customary anti-miscegenation attitudes hardened into formal colonial policy
• De-Indianization is a strategy of redefining indigeneity, not abandoning it
• Declarations of historical inevitability are typically secured through deadly force
• Defense spending including all security apparatuses reached 900 billion dollars by 2006
• Defining racism as resisting mixed relationships hides racist motives behind pursuing them.
• Defunding progressive commitments substitutes for demographic restriction in the culture wars
• Dehumanizing contained groups lets perpetrators deny racism is even possible
• Dehumanizing targets as non-human makes racist violence self-excusing
• Democracies split between imposed dominance and emergent self-determination
• Democracy emerges from the tension between state and civil society, not apart from it
• Demographic privilege mapping along racial lines indicates structural racism
• Demographic scarcity of European women drove enslavement of African women as concubines
• Demographic size and land ties shape how racial groups are valued
• Denied civility leaves victims unable to die civilly or live decently
• Denouncing race itself becomes the new racism’s containment tactic.
• Denying race as fiction is a reaction against imposed being
• Dependence on the subordinated coexisted with total denial of their humanity.
• Designated-states endure permanent instability until accepting neoliberal terms.
• Deterrence is etymologically and conceptually bound to terror.
• Disposability writes off people as depreciated consumption goods via group massification
• Disposability writes off people as depreciated consumption goods.
• Disputes within modern states are really wars over civility
• Diverse ideological factions united to seal apartheid’s fate by the late 1980s
• Divide-and-rule ethnoracial fragmentation long predated formal apartheid
• Divide-and-rule fragmented the colonized while whiteness unified the colonizers
• Divinely-sanctioned political causes are pursued with exceptional relentlessness.
• Domestic disaster response has adopted tactics of overseas militarization
• Dominant groups also suffer insecurity when their status seems threatened
• Dominant groups treat subjugated groups’ potential self-determination as a threat to their own domination.
• Dominant-race domination is sustained by threat invested in the subjugated
• Dutch Cape men self-constrained their desires more than Spanish conquistadores did
• Dutch colonial Cape houses did not segregate white and black workers by style
• Each antiracist mobilization shifted public concern from material access to questions of categorization.
• Earlier abolition correlates with smaller African-descended populations today in Latin America
• Early anticolonial leaders’ geographic circuits produced a shared antiracist politics.
• Early Cape racial boundaries were drawn on religious rather than biological lines.
• Early Cape racial hierarchy existed without a race-based governing rationality
• Early colonial segregation barriers failed immediately against intimate contact
• Early twentieth-century Costa Rican economists racialized black migrant labor as degenerating the nation
• Eichmann’s evil lay in a generalizable absence of thinking rather than monstrosity.
• Eighteenth-century civility and state formation were structured by racial dominance
• Eighty percent of Gazans depend partly on food aid under siege conditions
• Embracing heterogeneity counters the threat posed by race
• Emphasis on merit and racelessness accompanied shifts away from the welfare state
• Empire’s logic inverted from postcolonial reckoning to preemptive global strike
• Enlightenment rationality and civility emerged from court-society discipline of affect
• Enlightenment thinkers excluded non-Europeans from full humanity in explicitly racial terms.
• Equality gains by subordinate groups trigger perceived threat in dominant groups
• Equalizing meanness to all groups negates accumulated targeting against specific groups
• Erasing a group’s past erases its claim on the nation-state
• Erasing racial categories from public accounting also erases the discrimination they record
• Erasure of racial language makes naming racism itself look mad
• Ethnic fragmentation among slaves prevented collective rebellion in the Cape
• Ethnically diverse urban contact long predates modern multicultural movements
• Eurocentrism positions European norms as the implied endpoint of world history
• Europe denies its racism by recasting racial exclusion as class cultural or religious problems
• Europe has repeatedly redefined its identity against successive non-white and non-Christian others.
• Europe judged Cape settlers provincial, debased by proximity to natives
• Europe only acknowledged racism when it was located elsewhere, in South Africa or America
• Europe responds to perceived external menace by constructing concentric rings of inauthentic belonging
• Europe’s Holocaust focus erases its colonial race history
• Europe’s Holocaust-centric memory silences its colonial legacy as race denial.
• Europe’s identity is a theological project of racial and religious conviction
• Europe’s only significant slavery memorial is physically hidden and marginal
• Europe’s racial anxieties about blackness paired the Muslim with the Jew
• Europe’s racisms vary nationally but share target-selection logic
• Europe’s real problem is homegrown radicalization from denied belonging, not immigration
• Europe’s sex trade reveals racialized desire ranking foreign bodies by region of origin.
• European antisemitism has been displaced onto Muslims through a parallel trajectory of dehumanization
• European colonizers repressed the heterogeneity their own mobility had produced.
• European federalization paradoxically reinforces homogeneity at the center while fearing local heterogeneity
• European immigration is governed by three interacting economies of labor, morality, and politics
• European internal racial mixing coexists with hardened external border barricades
• European memorialization of slavery remains scarce and marginalizing.
• European modernity embraces colonized cultures while erasing the colonized people themselves
• European planetary globalization was genuinely novel in quality and quantity
• European populisms from the 1960s to today all inherit the racial-purity drive
• European post-WWII racial denial wants race to erase itself but never succeeds
• European racial thought is conventionally framed as a black-antisemitism dualism
• European racial violence gets blamed on foreign imports rather than local conditions.
• European slave-trade reminders stay provincialized at margins, sparing metropolitan consciences
• European states mask citizens’ eroding rights by contrasting them with immigrants’ absent rights
• European states resist even collecting data on racist violence
• European states were deeply shaped by their colonial experiences
• European unification has been mediated through racial management
• European-born children of immigrants lash out from double displacement and non-acceptance
• Europeans regarded the colonized as creatures of nature rather than culture
• Europeans responded to colonial racial mixing with restriction and repression
• Evangelical support for Israel serves an apocalyptic religious vision rather than Jewish interests
• Even conceptually abstract race is never far from racism’s violence
• Even liberal historians frame Israeli domination as an unavoidable binary choice
• Even small admixtures of black blood blocked Indians’ racial advancement.
• Every culture changes through borrowing, theft, and transgression despite itself
• Everyday commercial contact coexisted with total prohibition of residential and social mixing
• Everyday interracial socializing coexists with unaddressed institutional and labor market discrimination
• Everyday microaggressions cumulatively make targets more vulnerable to lethal violence
• Everyday teacher bias and structural school resourcing interact to accumulate racial disadvantage.
• Everyone is potentially subject to palestinianization, and capable of it
• External wars are waged partly to keep the domestic population pliant.
• Fanon countered racial reification by performing the stereotype back.
• Fashion’s aesthetic standards can invert to make whiteness the unfavored norm
• Fear of Black political power was framed as alien invasion
• Fear of native hostility drove the first settler structures into fortress-gated forms.
• Fear of the native other shaped even the first colonial settlement as gated
• Fear of violence has always shadowed the concern with civility
• Federal agencies color-coded neighborhoods by race to steer mortgage lending
• Federal mortgage maps caused urban blight and capital flight in black neighborhoods
• Federal outsourcing of state functions worsened disaster response after Hurricane Katrina
• Federal policy publicly subsidized private resegregation even as desegregation efforts advanced.
• Federal redlining maps formally institutionalized racial segregation in the 1930s
• Few amnesty seekers satisfied the TRC’s full-confession requirement
• Fewer than one in seven apartheid amnesty requests were granted
• Fighting-‘them-there’ war logic is race war in denial relying on racial discounting
• Fixing on antisemitism as the sole admissible racism blinds France to other institutional bias
• Flimsy group affiliation conjures presumptive filiation and presumed familiarity
• Forced military service paired with rights curtailment bred resentment and revolt
• Forced proximity under rules of separation sustains racial disengagement without contact being absent
• Formal colorblindness preserves racial inequality in privatized, unnamed form.
• Formal emancipation across European empires took roughly eight decades, from 1807 to 1888.
• Formal equal access from unequal starting positions perpetuates exclusion
• Formal legal inclusion preserved incumbent control of incorporation criteria across slavery, colonialism, and apartheid.
• Formal rejection of racial profiling leaves racialized incarceration rates untouched
• Freedom in Latin America has been reframed as freedom to assimilate into whiteness
• Frequent interracial contact alone did nothing to soften apartheid’s hierarchy.
• Frontier métissage was cultural rather than genetic
• Frontier racial hardening followed the waning of metropolitan civilizing norms
• Frontier survival pushed intermittent cooperation between settlers and Khoi despite racial suspicion.
• Frustrated mimetic aspiration converts into violence against non-Europeans
• Gaza is a closed camp with 80 percent on food aid
• German colonial labor camps had a 90 percent death rate in early 1907
• German colonial labor camps in Namibia killed 90 percent of internees in six months
• Globalization has occurred in multiple distinct historical waves
• Governments sanctioned apartheid out of realpolitik, not moral outrage alone
• Governors justified expelling the Xhosa by labeling them inherently barbarous.
• Greater openness and heterogeneity actually refine, not reduce, racial segregation.
• Group-based racial rule outcompetes individualizing ideology for cheap labor supply
• Groups become White by renouncing cultural difference and proving state loyalty
• Hamas won Palestinian support by delivering services where the state failed
• Hamas won power by delivering social services where Fatah had failed
• Heroic national history curricula erase the categories needed to claim racial redress
• Herzl framed Jewish immigration as bringing strength to a poor Ottoman land.
• Herzl’s colleague Nordau framed Zionism as European civilizing work in Asia
• Heterogeneity is a formal disposition against closure rather than a demographic fact.
• Heterogeneity precedes and even prompts claims to purity, not merely negates them.
• Historicist racism masks ongoing subjugation as cultural poverty
• Holocaust memorialization lets Europe deny its colonial racial past
• Homogeneity is never natural but requires constant repressive maintenance
• Human-shield protest tactics halted Israeli air strikes by raising political costs
• Imitation structurally denies the imitator’s own cultural virtues
• Immigrant rights double as the metric of native working-class citizenship vigor
• Immigrant rights protection serves as a barometer of local working-class rights
• Immobility is a form of social death in the mobility age
• Imperialism reproduced European institutions by educating local settler elites to lead them.
• Imported European racial views rationalized white control at the Cape
• In eighteenth-century Cape, race was defined religiously as the space between human and animal
• In-group familial identity is built on negating the racial other
• Incarceration functions as warehousing of poor and unassimilated populations
• Incivility is endemic to civil society, not a departure from it.
• Incivility is endogenous to civil society rather than its outside
• Incoherent racial legislation required escalating violence to enforce
• Income segregation rose sharply in US cities from 1970 to 1990
• Incoming Christians’ pig-farming practices provoked communal violence in Motril
• Indigenous people served as disposable labor before African slavery began
• Informal inclusion in Latin America masked structural barriers that formal exclusion made legible
• Informal whitening relations structurally erase darker maternal grandmothers over generations.
• Institutional power enables through constraint rather than disruption
• Instrumental ethics tied to security justify unlimited violence against designated groups
• Integration plans almost always assume blacks rather than whites should relocate.
• Intellectuals function as the day-laborers who cement racial power in place
• International connections can energize local ethnoracial organizing and insurgency
• Interracial toleration collapsed by the mid-eighteenth century
• Intra-regional racial hierarchies operate among Asian peoples independent of Western imposition
• Invasion anxiety about migration, terror, and disease is racially indexed
• Invoking an explanation for abuse does not justify the abuse
• Iraq war anxieties diverted attention from institutional racism against black people.
• Islamic-majority nations are excluded from Europe regardless of democratic reforms
• Islamic-majority nations are structurally barred from ever becoming ‘fully European’
• Israel can unilaterally seal both territories at will
• Israel erased the Arab landscape by renaming Palestinian places with Old Testament Hebrew names
• Israel functions as a racial state in denial built as state plus shadow state
• Israel is a military-fueled society rather than a state that merely has a military
• Israel now operates a state for Jews and a shadow state for Palestinians.
• Israel’s 1948 war expanded its territory by a third and evicted 750,000 Arabs
• Israel’s 2003 citizenship law forced Arab Israelis marrying Palestinians to relocate
• Israel’s 2003 law forced Arab citizens marrying Palestinians out of the country.
• Israel’s European whiteness is a performed but unremarked construct
• Israel’s founding entailed mass expulsion of Arabs to secure a Jewish majority.
• Israel’s founding ideology combined anti-Arab rhetoric with Jewish supremacy over Arab citizens
• Israel’s founding security logic predicated its birth on Palestinian destruction
• Israel’s founding straddled decolonizing-logic and apartheid-state logics simultaneously.
• Israel’s founding wedged between decolonization and apartheid as novel racial state
• Israel’s modern self-image depends on depicting Palestine as racially backward past
• Israel’s premise of singular Jewish being reenacts the exclusionary logic Jews fled
• Israel’s presumptive whiteness is maintained by transparent, virtual racial coding
• Israel’s right-of-return discourse asymmetrically privileges Jewish over Palestinian claims.
• Israel’s self-conception was racially configured from its very founding.
• Israeli airport security intentionally weaponizes uncertainty and surveillance against all travelers
• Israeli and Palestinian national identities are mutually constituted as opposition
• Israeli and Palestinian national identities are mutually constitutive through negation
• Israeli home demolitions and suicide bombings form an escalating mutual cycle of violence
• Israeli independence expanded partition-territory by a third and evicted 750,000 Arabs.
• Israeli military tactics weaponized Deleuzian rhizomatic theory to swarm urban camps
• Israeli officers openly invoked Nazi methods in Palestinian operations
• Israeli policy combines total containment with funneled, easily closed passage points
• Israeli settlement waste is dumped near Palestinian villages, raising health risks
• Israeli state archaeology functions to legitimize an exclusive claim to the land
• Israeli territorial expansion imposed inverse spatial claustrophobia on Palestinians
• Jewish immigrants of marginal status rose into the white racial elite through mining wealth
• Jewish-Arab enmity is fundamentally a European-imposed historical construction
• Jim Crow was active intervention while modern segregation is conservative preservation of inherited arrangements
• Johannesburg surged to 100,000 residents within a decade of its founding
• Katrina laid bare that neoliberalism and segregation jointly structure urban space
• Katrina’s evacuation capacity tracked class and race, stranding the immobile poor
• Khoi groups raided Dutch settlements as organized resistance
• Khoi resistance predating Paerl was individual rather than collective
• Labeling a state rogue justifies invasive violence against it
• Lacking remembered history forfeits one’s claim to the nation-state.
• Language intertwines descriptive and normative claims about the world
• Late-eighteenth-century Cape recordkeeping made white the default superior racial category.
• Latin America pioneered cultural racism as social control before Europe formalized it
• Latin America replaced killing the Indian with assimilating the Indian into whiteness
• Latin American blacks rarely mobilize as voting blocs where Indians do
• Latin American citizenship was achievable through acquiring cultural properties coded as white.
• Latin American elites mimicked European high culture, creating an unstable peripheral modernity.
• Latin American mixed offspring inherited while their enslaved mothers were excluded
• Latin American nation-building absorbed racial difference into a whitened core.
• Latin American nation-building assimilated diversity into a white-dominant body
• Latin American nation-building consciously alchemized Africans and Indians into a new race
• Latin American nations were deliberately constructed as raceless or new-race projects
• Latin American neo-racism pioneered shifting race from biology to culture
• Latin American racial exceptionalism unites figures from Bolivar to Freyre across two centuries
• Latin American racial taxonomy proliferated into vast numbers of categories
• Latin American racism operates without explicit racial categories and proliferates shifting racial vocabulary.
• Latin American slave women bought freedom through market trading while enslaved men could not
• Latinamericanization exemplifies racisms that deny race while structuring exclusions
• Liberal individualizing and messianic group-rule modes of racial governance ultimately converge.
• Liberal racial historicism held in cities while naturalist racism dominated frontiers
• Liberal segregationists justified racial hierarchy by cultural historicism, not biology.
• Liberal universal citizenship can leave excluded identity intact beneath its surface
• Local Africans rejected racial categories until Europeans imposed them
• Manufactured crises enable states to restructure by projecting threat outward.
• Manufactured scarcity and disposability govern racialized populations by timing need
• Manufactured scarcity and disposability sustain value by regulating perceived demand
• Marginalized groups carry a historically forged drive to survive and revive
• Maroon settlements were self-made spaces of freedom and resistance, not mere hideouts
• Mass atrocity like Auschwitz exceeds comprehension despite full factual knowledge of it.
• Mass-production capitalism outpaces individual-conversion modes of labor discipline
• Meritocratic racelessness discourse accompanied the neoliberal retreat from the welfare state
• Mestizaje ideology excludes those deemed insufficiently mixed.
• Mestizaje ideology masks entrenched Euro-cultural dominance as inclusive mixture.
• Mestizaje ideology ultimately stabilized white power across Latin America
• Mestizaje preserves Euro cultural dominance while aestheticizing mixed color
• Mestizaje shifted from degeneracy stigma into an idealized national identity
• Mestizaje shifted from degeneracy to national identity across colonial and postcolonial eras
• Mestizaje was promoted as Latin America’s unifying national ideology
• Mestizo self-identity is used to deny the possibility of racism
• Metropolitan disasters produce only fleeting cross-difference solidarity before turn to blame
• Metropolitan racial ideas cemented hardening socio-racial divides at the Cape.
• Might determines the terms of political and historical possibility, not just outcomes
• Might manufactures the terms of political possibility rather than merely being right
• Mild individual in-group preference generates macro segregation spontaneously
• Militarized groups like Hamas function as civil-society responses to state collapse under aggressive neoliberalism.
• Millenarian prophecy could channel land grievances into organized anticolonial movements
• Millenarian prophecy generated Khoi collective revolt decades before Nongawuse
• Minoritized groups channel racialized death-mediation into markedly different survival strategies
• Minoritized groups facing death-tinged identity develop divergent coping responses
• Missionary and messianic modes of rule produced opposite racial regimes
• Missionary conversion aimed to manufacture a new colonial subjectivity, not just religious belief
• Missionary conversion was a racial-regulatory technology cultivating obedient subjectivity
• Missionary theology converted Africans to a progressive politics promising liberation through labor and faith.
• Mixed-race children were freed and inherited property while their slave mothers stayed enslaved
• Mixed-race status in the Cape legally presumed debasement and enabled indenture
• Mixed-race status shamed as paternal lack justified forced indenture into adulthood
• Mizrahi Jews occupy a not-quite-white middle rung in Israel’s racial hierarchy
• Mobility disparity defines the occupation’s spatial apartheid
• Modern antiracism consolidated in three distinct historical mobilizations
• Modern Arab and Palestinian national identity crystallized largely as anti-colonial reaction
• Modern civility is racially structured at its foundations
• Modern civility is the codified displacement of raw violence into regulated social order.
• Modern civilization idealizes itself while being constitutively built on incorporated violence
• Modern ethnoracial massacre magnitudes match or exceed those of chattel slavery
• Modern mass slaughter is justified through racial threat rather than religious demonism
• Modern slavery originated offshore outsourcing that still hides production conditions
• Modern societies are constitutively founded on violence, not purged of it
• Modern statehood itself was constituted through racial assumption
• Modern states treat abstract humanity as sacred but subject actual persons to institutional violence
• Modern US mass incarceration dwarfs prior decades and falls on people of color.
• Most Brazilians acknowledge racism yet deny their own prejudice.
• Most Israeli settlements sit on privately owned Palestinian land taken without compensation.
• Most Latin American nations abolished slavery before Britain did in 1833
• Most Palestinians killed in the second intifada were not combatants
• Most West Bank settlement land sits on privately owned Palestinian property
• Movements admit excluded groups legally without surrendering control of incorporation criteria.
• Moving to cities is framed as the price of becoming communicable citizens
• Mulato labels extend from mixed offspring to any phenotypically or temperamentally black-marked person.
• Multicultural diversity in western cities predates the 1980s by centuries
• Multicultural movements of the 1980s-90s grew partly from anti-apartheid struggles
• Muslim Americans faced routine fingerprinting at border crossings
• Muslims make up under 5 percent of Europe’s population
• Mutilation forces silence and strips the victim of identity
• Mutual escalating contempt sustains the racialized Israeli-Palestinian dynamic
• Naming the racial dimensions of Israel’s founding carries social and intellectual costs.
• Nation-making often requires forgetting the very injustices restorative justice remembers.
• Nation-states require racialized others to justify their claimed homogeneity
• National museums omit annihilated groups, erasing their claim to the nation
• National racial histories exceed their borders to shape global configurations
• National reconciliation via confession can come at the longer-term cost of justice
• National security threat perception can abruptly reverse public rejection of racial profiling
• Nazi comparisons of Israeli figures were mainstream in the 1960s
• Nazi-comparison language about Israeli leaders was mainstream before it became taboo
• Negritude’s intellectual founding directly drew on the Harlem Renaissance
• Neo-neoliberalism achieves ubiquity through replication rather than movement
• Neo-neoliberalism extends privatized preference beyond all limits and finitude.
• Neo-neoliberalism’s universalizing reach depends on deliberate destruction and neglect
• Neoconservatives recoded the state itself as a threatening black institution
• Neoliberal choice is a pretense limited by means, networks, and inherited position
• Neoliberal force is deployed against local socialities coded as irrational or premodern
• Neoliberal geopolitics froze time and controls territory through normalized exception
• Neoliberal globalization privatizes institutional racisms stripped of explicit labels
• Neoliberal multiculturalism masks racist imperial policy under Biden
• Neoliberal racism persists by privatizing institutional racism and dropping racial language
• Neoliberal restructuring systematically further privileges the already privileged
• Neoliberal social spending is redirected toward donors’ interests, not ended
• Neoliberal states redefined their mandate from welfare to securitization and control
• Neoliberal states shifted from citizen wellbeing to policing and surveillance
• Neoliberalism commodities anti-apartheid history emptied of memory
• Neoliberalism displaces race into market-mediated commodified self-presentation
• Neoliberalism displaces racial markers onto marketable and consumable identity conditions.
• Neoliberalism economically rescues the same Afrikaners apartheid ideology uplifted
• Neoliberalism elevates capital and information flows over all other freedoms.
• Neoliberalism frames free choice as exercised through secured commercial interaction.
• Neoliberalism functioned as a defense against perceived erosion of white privilege
• Neoliberalism functions as a response to white status threat.
• Neoliberalism intensifies rather than breaks with capitalist state form
• Neoliberalism redefined affirmative action as the racism it was designed to oppose
• Neoliberalism removed race from public vocabulary while privatizing it
• Neoliberalism replaces the welfare state with a traffic-cop state
• Neoliberalism resorts to violent enforcement when local socialities reject its order
• Neoliberalism shifts jobs toward labor, not labor toward jobs
• Neoliberalism shifts racial discrimination into the privatized sphere where the state cannot intervene
• Neoliberalism strengthens repressive state apparatuses rather than shrinking government
• Neoliberalism subordinates the state to capital rather than freeing markets
• Neoliberalizing race moves sovereign power from state to market
• Nineteenth-century racial historicism framed non-Europeans as immature rather than inferior
• No group’s experience of racial annihilation is reductively exemplary
• Non-European speakers of European languages are judged by race not grammar
• Nonracialism can serve as cover for neoliberal state retrenchment.
• Nonviolence as first resort still permits justified self-defense
• Notable Afrikaner families descend from coerced sexual abuse of slaves
• Occupation reproduces itself by shaping the occupying state’s militarized self-understanding
• Occupation works by keeping a state permanently unsettled and non-sovereign
• Occupied states are muted, forced to mimic the occupier’s preoccupations
• Occupier’s dominance forces occupied states to mimic occupier’s preoccupations rather than speak
• Occupying states use engineered chaos and panic as an intelligence-gathering device
• Official colorblindness lets familiar-partner privilege continue unchecked as exclusion
• Official silence on race in Europe reinforces daily interracial casualness.
• Officials explain racism as personal heart-change rather than institutional pattern or precedent.
• On-air racial eugenics by public figures is shielded as protected free speech.
• One 1894 law achieved land loss, voter disenfranchisement, and labor extraction at once
• One quarter of all global refugees are Palestinian.
• One quarter of young Palestinian men declared willingness to die as suicide attackers
• One-by-one soul conversion was too slow for mass-producing mineral capitalism
• Only 12 percent of amnesty requests to the TRC were granted
• Only 3-10 percent of Dutch Cape men had formal recorded interracial relationships
• Only five Latin American censuses allow African-descended self-classification.
• Only five Latin American states census by African-descended self-classification
• Opposing racial classification can substitute for and crowd out the struggle against racism
• Opposing the race concept differs from opposing racist conditions
• Oppressive cultures face destruction by their own suppressed groups
• Ottoman political principles directly opposed territorial-state and ethnic-nationality ideas
• Outlawing explicit race measures resegregates schools through residential sorting
• Palestinian displacement was founded and simultaneously repressed from Israel’s official record.
• Palestinian dispossession parallels racially inscribed catastrophes elsewhere in the postcolonial world
• Palestinian indigeneity was discursively recast via biblical Philistine identification into savagery.
• Palestinianization is a racial targeting regime worse than apartheid.
• Palestinians served as test subjects for Israeli security tech exported worldwide.
• Pentagon recruitment for Iraq patrols targeted Latinos and noncitizen Mexicans
• Perceived numeric threat shifts rulers from assimilation toward segregated dominance
• Perceived physical resemblance is presumed to entail shared dispositions and beliefs
• Perceived physical resemblance licenses presumptive knowledge of others’ inner lives
• Perceived racial threat drives zero-sum fears that justify defensive aggression
• Perceived racial-mixture threat restructured a group’s core character into defensive rigidity
• Permanent occupation requires discounting the occupied people’s full humanity
• Persecuted victims reproduce the power they fear against others
• Pervasive military metaphors in social policy reveal state character
• Political civility depends on being named while mutilation reduces persons to unnamed numbers
• Political segregation mirrors residential segregation along party and racial lines
• Political theologies structure who counts as human in proletarianization.
• Political theology shaped the terms of black proletarianization
• Post-1950 segregation deepened only where black populations were large
• Post-abolition states deliberately decimated freed black populations, especially in Argentina
• Post-apartheid citizenship extends only to the healthy, paying, property-owning
• Post-apartheid freedom of choice reduces to what one can afford and buy into
• Post-apartheid growth produced extreme racial wealth stratification despite formal color blindness
• Post-apartheid racial secularization preserves racialized suffering under new forms
• Post-apartheid reconciliation inverted the theological frame of apartheid rule
• Post-apartheid reconciliation was built as a political theology of confession and forgiveness
• Post-apartheid resistance is localized and dissipates, unlike the national anti-apartheid movement
• Post-apartheid secularization drives ethnoracial groups into insular identity projects
• Post-apartheid South Africa is a laboratory for racial transition
• Post-apartheid sovereignty governs the quality of living but not who lives
• Post-civil-rights conservatives perceived the state as serving black Americans
• Post-communist neoliberalization widens inequality and targets visible minorities as scapegoats
• Post-imperial anxieties span material competition and injured national pride.
• Post-Katrina America imported its own military tactics from the Iraq war to domestic soil
• Post-Katrina federal aid overwhelmingly rejected poor homeowners’ loan applications
• Post-Katrina SBA lending rebuilt whiter neighborhoods while black wards stayed ruined.
• Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity
• Postcolonial democracies risk homegrown repressions after breaking with imposed rule
• Postcolonial migration provoked new racial management modes under neoliberalism
• Postcolonial migration to metropoles made race visibly domestic by the late 1960s
• Postcolonial rule ends civility more fundamentally than it ends civil society
• Postmodernity’s defining symbols pair surface civility with buried racial destruction.
• Postsegregation white conservatives perceived the state as serving black Americans
• Postwar decolonization swept away direct colonial rule across three continents
• Postwar European intellectual thought pursued three linked strategies of racial denial
• Postwar UNESCO race statements legitimized racial mixture as national ideology
• Pre-Adamism’s polygenism relegated Africans to animal proximity in European thought
• Predictability requires controlling variables, so heterogeneity defies guaranteed outcomes.
• Presidential discourse reduces racism to lingering individual heart-states divorced from institutions.
• Presumed knowledge of others fabricated by race enables exploitation and violence
• Presumed racial knowledge fabricates character and bears race’s stigma
• Presumptive racial knowledge breeds contempt that feeds violence, property, profit, and power
• Private disaster charity replaced shrinking public welfare support
• Private discrimination becomes legally untouchable under neoliberal restructuring
• Private racial exclusions fall outside state reach under neoliberalism
• Privatized media channels let states circulate racist ideas they cannot state officially.
• Privatized media personalities circulate racist ideas states can no longer voice directly.
• Privatized support systems channel resources to white corporate interests
• Privatizing race frees racism to circulate unchecked in private life
• Privatizing state services produces bifurcated access to social goods
• Privileged groups preserve power by shifting from inherent-inferiority to cultural-deficit rationales after formal equality.
• Prosecutorial overreach in the Duke case flipped the usual racial asymmetry of justice outcomes
• Publicly condemning racism legitimates its unregulated private practice
• Punitive family-home demolition dates back to the Haganah militia in 1947
• Purported neighborhood preferences are themselves produced by racial discourse
• Race and racism cannot be fully separated historically or politically
• Race and racism must be analytically distinguished rather than conflated.
• Race and racism must be distinguished analytically and politically
• Race became a secular theology as scientific authority replaced religious justification
• Race both drives and expresses violence, property, profit, and power
• Race both licenses and forecloses what societies may think
• Race categories named people after spotted farm animals.
• Race claims an ontological status that can only be sustained transcendentally, like religious belief
• Race closes down public debate precisely as public discourse excises explicit racial mention.
• Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated
• Race emerged as a civic religion filling the void of lost communal intimacy
• Race emerged as a civic religion responding to urbanization and anonymity
• Race emerged as a civic religion responding to urbanization and collapsing kinship intimacy.
• Race functions as a core structuring technology of neoliberal state formation
• Race functions as an invisible borderline mark of formal belonging and permissible speech.
• Race functions as futurology predicting people’s prospects from group pasts.
• Race functions as the political theology of modernity, licensing institutional violence
• Race gained social hegemony as religion declined, becoming a secularized civic theology
• Race gives bodily power a secular license that still draws humanism’s boundaries at kin
• Race has shifted from institutional sites to everyday micro-relational interactions
• Race has structured population membership and exclusion throughout modernity
• Race historically shaped national population membership and its exclusions
• Race is a contemporary, evolving formation rather than a premodern leftover
• Race is a distinctly modern construct central to globalization
• Race is a living disposition and passion, not merely a word or category.
• Race is a way of being, not merely a set of ideas
• Race is being reformed and reformulated, not disappearing, in contemporary societies.
• Race is counter-historical in displacing theological modes of rationality and sociality
• Race marks people as depreciated consumption goods to be written off
• Race operates as a political theology underpinning sacrifice of groups
• Race operates as sacred violence purchasing order through scapegoats
• Race persists through code and proxy even as its formal marks fade
• Race persists through proxy topics like migration, terror, and disease
• Race persists under neoliberalism by mutating into coded private arrangements
• Race quietly continues to structure membership even where racial talk is silenced.
• Race remains a routine, current shaper of modern state violence
• Race replaced religion as modernity’s dominant public organizing frame
• Race retains analytic power as embrace and enclosure under neoliberalism
• Race served as a theological marker separating the blessed from the cursed
• Race sets licensed horizons on thought and action, foreclosing as well as enabling
• Race still delimits civil membership even when racial speech is silenced
• Race still delimits civil-society status even while racial talk is officially silenced
• Race structures the modern state through theological categories
• Race was mobilized by Iberian states in the fifteenth century
• Race when invoked to categorize humans almost invariably operates as threat and disruption
• Race-evaporation recasts racism claims as offenses against society itself.
• Race-making analysis needs both conceptual mapping and regional historical cases
• Race’s apparent naturalness conceals the labor that reproduces racial arrangements
• Race’s register shifts from institutions to everyday micro-relational and macro-strategic sites.
• Race’s rendered irrelevance stigmatizes antiracist invocation as the real racism
• Race’s weight is differentially distributed across socially layered strata
• Raceless melancholia denies racial exclusion while compulsively re-invoking its terms.
• Racelessness extended racial historicism rather than contradicting it
• Racelessness redraws public norms while privatizing the institutional mechanisms that perpetuate exclusion
• Racial absolutism enacts Schmittian sovereignty while liberal constraint represents a rival bounded sovereignty
• Racial analysis must extend beyond explicitly repressive cases to muted ones
• Racial and cultural mixing are ancient hallmarks of human being
• Racial and cultural mixture is a foundational human condition, not a modern anomaly
• Racial architecture helped fabricate the lived spaces that shape residents’ dispositions
• Racial architecture shapes neighborhoods and the habitus of their residents
• Racial attitudes were forged in Europe’s internal debates before Cape settlement
• Racial burden shifts onto survivors and witnesses after deaths.
• Racial categories persist by being recoded as threats to fiscal and social security
• Racial census undercounts in Latin America lead to denied state resources and legal standing
• Racial demarcation answers modern fragmentation by bounding who counts as civilized.
• Racial democracy granted only virtual, unreachable belonging to the non-white
• Racial democracy made inherited racial inequalities appear to be personal choices
• Racial democracy prefigured today’s raceless neoliberal racism
• Racial democracy rendered structural inequality invisible and individualized
• Racial democracy’s promises are always partial and never fully attainable
• Racial determination still structures occupational possibility through indirect coded channels
• Racial disadvantage compounds because everyday and structural discrimination interact cumulatively.
• Racial dominance’s violence is self-defeating, deepening its own isolation and paranoia
• Racial domination is reproduced by ‘doing nothing special’ through market and preference neutrality.
• Racial evaporation became harder to sustain as former colonies migrated to European metropoles
• Racial exclusion becomes legally unactionable once reframed as private moral preference
• Racial exclusion operates as purification of a sacred social body
• Racial exclusion persists through institutions while personal relations integrate
• Racial fluidity in Latin America carries psychological stress and diminished prospects
• Racial historicism held sway in colonial cities while naturalism dominated the frontier
• Racial historicism replaced biological inferiority claims with cultural poverty excuses
• Racial homogenization is a prerequisite for othering and racial sovereignty
• Racial homogenization is the necessary precondition for objectification and enmity
• Racial humiliation is recast as fiscal and security threat language.
• Racial identity rests on an abstract presumption of familial connectedness.
• Racial ideology actively constitutes labor regimes rather than merely justifying them
• Racial ideology constituted the labor regime rather than merely rationalizing it after the fact
• Racial ideology constitutes labor hierarchy rather than merely justifying it.
• Racial infantilization makes states vulnerable to occupation
• Racial logic now operates through coded, unspeakable terms
• Racial marking rationalizes violence by framing targets as unruleable beasts
• Racial mixing in Latin America replaced violent erasure of Indians with assimilative disappearance.
• Racial mixing was not yet seen as bestial in the Cape’s first half-century
• Racial modalities rise to global dominance at specific historical conjunctions
• Racial naturalism joined with religiosity to unify South African whites into a ruling class
• Racial neoliberalism reconciles personal preference with history-shaped racial constraint
• Racial order enforces social apartness despite forced physical proximity
• Racial order responded to each mobilizing threat with formal legal equality
• Racial ordering persists by relocating from public law to private spheres
• Racial others are recruited into whiteness while denied its inner rewards
• Racial Palestinianization projects ancient Philistine traits onto contemporary Palestinians to justify their exclusion
• Racial political theology governed heterogeneous labor more effectively than individualizing religion
• Racial preference expression requires persistent management to preserve white structural power.
• Racial rationalization both legitimates and amplifies imperial power and profit
• Racial rationalization simultaneously legitimized expansion and maximized colonial profit
• Racial revolutions bring piecemeal gains that typically trigger new backlashes and subtler exclusions
• Racial rigidity at the Cape tightened with Protestant ideas of divine election
• Racial science flowed from Europe to Africa for practical political testing
• Racial secularization displaces sovereign control from state to privatized economic forces
• Racial secularization removes absolutist racial rule without ending race’s social force
• Racial self-sanctification operates as paranoid group self-defense against imagined impurities.
• Racial self-security through others’ death generates its own counter-insecurity
• Racial slavery and indentured labor made metropolitan Europe wealthy long before globalization.
• Racial states police superficial relations to sustain their grip
• Racial terminology in Brazil is flexible but not detached from color assumptions
• Racial theo-politics outperformed individualized labor modalities at delivering cheap labor and power
• Racial theology of group salvation unifies previously divided whites into a ruling class
• Racial threat operates through distance and incapacitation, not engagement with its objects.
• Racial threat operates through rationalized systems that disperse responsibility across social arrangements
• Racial threats against black students drew reprimands while black retaliation drew felony charges
• Racial unipolarity reduces America to paranoid, self-touchless insecurity
• Racial unity welded divergent European settler groups into common whiteness
• Racial-skin societies police surface relations while building social structure on racial cement
• Racialized control techniques remain available because public resistance is weak
• Racialized control technologies remain ready and are met with weak public resistance
• Racialized grief masks rather than resolves underlying social grievances
• Racialized regimes license privatized citizen violence against targeted groups.
• Racialized societies compel even resistance into skin-based codes
• Racialized unruly populations become targets of states of exception
• Racializing a people can induce them to enact the very caricature assigned to them
• Racially disparate outcomes persist without any explicit racist intention.
• Racially patterned residential preferences reproduce segregation without overt racism
• Racism causes ignorance as much as ignorance causes racism
• Racism fundamentally operates as exclusion through depreciation
• Racism is a rationalized disposition toward premature death, not isolated hate
• Racism is best understood as the promotion of premature death
• Racism may not require presuming intrinsic inferiority of the other
• Racism need not presume permanent inferiority, only exclusion from privilege and protection
• Racism operates as a disposition toward premature death of the subjugated.
• Racism operates as production of group vulnerability to premature death
• Racism persists by being reframed as private individual acts rather than institutional inequality.
• Racism persists in raceless form by shifting from denial to security-based justification
• Racism persists in raceless states by relocating from state to private civilian life
• Racism persists without explicit racial language, operating through denial and apology
• Racism produces the ignorance that is blamed for generating it
• Racism takes five distinct regional modalities worldwide
• Racism’s core insecurity drives disproportionate violence against any resistance
• Racism’s modes persist after being severed from their categories of meaning
• Racisms form regional typologies tied to specific state formations but travel across borders
• Racist animalization persists in European soccer through monkey taunts and banana pelting.
• Racist denial typically claims intent and universality as defenses
• Randomized attacks double as surveillance instruments on crowds
• Randomized state violence functions as a filter exposing hidden cultural difference
• Redlined maps graded neighborhoods by coded race and decay categories for lending.
• Redlining maps directly caused segregation, abandonment, and concentrated poverty.
• Refusing to count by race masks ongoing structural racial restriction
• Refusing to recognize others’ death erodes one’s own humanity
• Regional racial formations follow connected but distinct trajectories
• Regional racial histories shape principal routes of exclusionary experience
• Regions are constituted in part by their specific racial arrangements
• Religious language entered the 1996 South African constitution
• Religious organizations could openly oppose apartheid when radical political groups were banned
• Religious organizations survived bans that silenced radical politics
• Renaming Palestinian places in Hebrew fabricates an ancient biblical claim to the land
• Representational acts that belittle are themselves a form of violence.
• Repressive controls persist in fragments even after resistance tears them apart
• Residential preferences are culturally shaped, not rational givens
• Resistance embodies counter-civilities warranting recognition as worlds
• Resistance to neoliberal racial management triggers more invasive state control
• Rhizomatic wall-walking tactics failed disastrously once adversaries deciphered them
• Rhodes ordered his aims as native welfare, British power, then personal gain
• Rising black self-identification tracks reduced stigma and affirmative action, not just birth rates
• Rising black urbanization and wars reversed assimilationist commitment
• Routine violence shapes citizens’ default sensibilities where the military is sacralized
• Rush Limbaugh publicly licensed Abu Ghraib abuse as masculine release
• Sacralized militaries routinize violence into default dispositions of daily life
• Sacralized militaries routinize violence into everyday civilian dispositions of seeing and feeling.
• Sacralized racial community requires violence because messianic community is always being remade
• Sacralized racial hierarchy licenses unlimited violence against the demonized.
• Sacralized racial orders require sustained violence to maintain their messianic community.
• Sacralized violence against outsiders provokes reciprocal vengeful cycles that degrade culture
• Sade’s heroine attacks civilization through its own tabooed heritage
• Scarcity is deliberately manufactured to sustain perceived value.
• Schmitt frames liberal democratic sovereignty as exception to commanding the exception
• Scholarly citation conventions can be replaced by conversational allusion
• Scholarship can dispense with footnotes and remain rigorous through allusion and bibliography
• Scientific racism flowed from Europe to southern Africa to be tested in practice
• Second-generation immigrant youth are twice removed from any homeland
• Secularization of government leaves lingering theological traces in race relations
• Secularization shifts belonging from racial birthright to formal qualification and earned commitment.
• Secularized deracialization still leaves lingering theological traces in social relations.
• Security purchased through racial destruction is inherently self-undermining
• Security walls intensify the defiance they aim to crush
• Security-seeking purification inevitably intensifies the very insecurity it targets
• Seemingly neutral consumer preferences remain racially patterned and predictable.
• Segregating others forces self-segregation and breeds fascination with the denied
• Segregating others inevitably means isolating oneself and breeds fascination with the denied
• Segregation became the assumed natural norm while integration seemed unnatural
• Segregation drew on degenerationist fear and racial historicist separation as twin fuels
• Segregation persists by shifting from formal law to informal culture and virtual space.
• Segregation shifted from within cities to between cities from the 1950s onward.
• Segregationist legislation was justified in the language of property rights and liberty
• Self-described peaceful states legitimate violence against rogues by deem both anomalous.
• Separate-but-equal doctrine equalized nominal access while fixing unequal quality.
• Serial individual conversion could not supply labor for mass industrial capitalism
• Settler and imperial justifications rest on denied racialized us-versus-they splits
• Settler occupation can never be complete against a place’s deep local historicity
• Settlers imposed idyllic biblical landscapes onto harsh colonial territory
• Settlers represented colonized land as edenic European gardens in ‘white pastoral’ writing
• Severe sex-ratio imbalance drove early intimate racial mixing at the Cape
• Shared catastrophe briefly unites people across difference before giving way to division and reprisal
• Shared religious commitment forced Afrikaners to respect their anti-apartheid opponents
• Shared religious language forced Afrikaners to respect their declared enemies
• Siege regimes criminalize opposition and cross-societal solidarity as treason
• Six or seven percent of Afrikaners have mixed-race ancestry
• Slave cultural heterogeneity suppressed collective rebellion, channeling resistance into individual acts
• Slave linguistic heterogeneity at the Cape suppressed collective rebellion
• Slave revolts sought to transform society, not merely join it
• Slave societies were structurally violent despite more lenient sexual and manumission practices
• Slavery and Holocaust deaths are linked by racialized and denied death
• Small threatened minority presence favors assimilation rather than segregationist rule
• So-called Afrikaner cultural markers originated from the very Khoikhoi they were invoked to exclude.
• Social securitization functions as prophylaxis protecting existing power from challenge
• South Africa’s post-apartheid transition aimed to secularize race outright
• South Africa’s post-Union state institutionalized white interest as its prime structural purpose
• South African nation-building cohered through a shared white racial identity
• South African nonracialism comprises denial of race, singular nationality, and universal citizenship.
• South African pass laws began as work-control mandates in 1860
• South African resistance movements secularized their governing vision while the dominant order stayed theological
• Southern Africa functioned as a colonial laboratory for early racial science
• Southern Africa produced little formal racial science before 1900 due to absent universities
• Sovereignty has historically manifested as the state of whiteness
• Sovereignty rests on the power to kill, not the power of exception
• Spatial and epistemic segregation persisted despite intimate daily contact.
• Staged provocations reveal audiences readily endorsing fascist measures against Muslims
• Standard accounts of Brazilian color-flexibility presuppose fixed racial reference
• State absorption of civil society yields state terror against projected terrorism
• State and civil society mutually constitute each other’s form
• State budgets shifted from welfare to policing and prisons
• State character is deeply shaped in racial terms in contemporary states.
• State reaction to globalization reorganized around racially inflected perceived threats
• State restructuring since Reagan institutionalized non-compassion toward poor black citizens
• State security and township rebels treated bodies as ritual sacrifice
• State socialist regimes engaged in racism as readily as capitalist ones
• State statistics both describe and actively constitute the population they govern
• State structures shape which racial preferences people can express and act on
• State violence against racialized populations recurs across centuries and continents
• State violence operating outside its own rules constitutes informal sovereignty
• State-guaranteed mine ownership and scientific racism entrenched white labor monopolies
• State-imposed whitening policy erased race from national law
• States defend society against imagined racial contamination
• States develop a character that disposes them toward populations defined by group belonging.
• States have shifted from citizen welfare to regulating flows, not withered away
• States homogenize populations mainly through territorial boundaries that regulate cultural formation.
• States manufacture and manage crises to justify self-assertion and restructuring.
• States possess character that is shaped in racial terms
• States reinscribed threatened national homogeneity in economic and legal terms.
• States resisting economic control become targets of invasive violence.
• States under racial neoliberalism mutate from welfare providers into prophylactic defenders against perceived threats.
• States with large Black populations soften their embrace of mestizaje
• Statistics are knowledge that constitutes and orders the state
• Structural redress was abandoned in favor of a choice framework that protects privilege
• Subordinate self-determination is read as a threat to dominant rule
• Successful anti-racist movements trigger renewed, subtler forms of racial exclusion, not elimination
• Suicide attacks are desperate demands for recognition, not just destruction
• Support for Arab-American internment correlates with partisanship, religiosity, and TV news consumption.
• Targeted assassinations predictably trigger revenge attacks in a violent feedback loop
• Tax cuts shift funding from welfare to repressive state functions
• Territorial greed explains settler colonialism no better than race does
• Terrorizing civilians into submission was the deliberate aim of war, not a side effect.
• The ‘Judeo-Nazi’ term was coined by an Israeli philosopher, not Palestinians
• The 1937 Peel Commission framed the Palestinian conflict in explicit racial terms
• The 2004 van Gogh murder punctuated Dutch racial tension over Muslim immigration
• The abstract figure of the Muslim embodies Europe’s foundational fear of death
• The Afrikaner Broederbond originated partly from fears of demographic swamping and white degeneration
• The Americas uniquely aimed for white majorities, unlike minority-settler colonies elsewhere
• The Anglo-Boer War pitted agrarian theology against industrial capitalism
• The Anglo-Boer War pitted racial naturalism against racial historicism
• The Anglo-Boer war was framed as a clash of competing secular theologies.
• The apartheid of race has been subsumed into an apartheid of class
• The apparent erasure of race and the ongoing racial ordering are one process
• The architects of apartheid descended from the very racial mixing they later repressed.
• The belief that Auschwitz ended racism is itself a denial enabling its persistence.
• The Broederbond arose from elite fears of Afrikaner dilution, impoverishment, and demographic swamping.
• The Broederbond grounded apartheid in a theology of divine calling
• The Cape Colony only became economically valuable once wool suited global markets
• The Cape’s mixing was multidirectional across many populations, not simply two-sided
• The Cape’s strategic value was controlling southern hemisphere sea traffic
• The civilizing mission frames privileged imposition on the ruled as an honorable burden.
• The civilizing state embodies the very violence it claims to purge.
• The colonized are cast as an ontological condition of permanent negation and near-death
• The Congo genocide functioned as a precursor to Nazi extermination methods
• The dominated reenact past injustice upon themselves to make it bearable
• The dream of racial irrelevance is race becoming literally meaningless and powerless.
• The Dutch border hedge was property enclosure, not an apartheid prototype
• The Dutch national hero initiated the settlement that led to apartheid
• The English colonial mark was the red mailbox, not architecture
• The failed Jameson Raid paradoxically strengthened mining magnates’ bargaining position with the Boer state
• The failed Jameson Raid ultimately triggered British takeover of the gold-rich Transvaal
• The figure of the Muslim reduces a life to unworthy-of-witness death
• The first European settlement at the Cape was a fortress against natives
• The Haitian Revolution initiated worldwide antiracist slave-revolt movements
• The Harlem Renaissance’s New Negro concept shaped the Negritude movement through direct intellectual exchange
• The headscarf symbolizes a feared demographic challenge to European secular identity
• The incoherence of racial classification laws required escalating violence to enforce
• The instability of racial categories undermines organizing around race in Latin America
• The Jewish-Arab enmity is fundamentally a European invention, not an indigenous one
• The Kach Movement rallied around the biblical Samson’s vengeful example
• The Lower Ninth Ward’s destruction by Katrina resulted from redlining and neoliberal privatization
• The mid-twentieth-century welfare state extended middle-class access to the previously excluded
• The mixed-race Zaaiman line produced apartheid’s most powerful figures
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration
• The monstrous and deformed function as placeholders marking the limit that normalizes the inside.
• The moreno identity masks racial discrimination and hardens with age and class mobility
• The Muslim trope of perpetual treachery predates modern Orientalism
• The neoliberal state secures private interests against projected racialized outsiders
• The postwar moment was defined by sweeping anti-colonial independence
• The presumed secularity of South African governance was saturated with religious legacy
• The rainbow nation conception treats identity as relationally configured, not fixed.
• The Rand mines produced 40 percent of world gold by 1914
• The skin functions as the organizing referent of a political theology of race
• The Sophiatown demolition marked the beginning of apartheid’s end
• The sovereign power to kill is more basic than the power over the exception
• The state has shifted from welfare caretaker to regulator of flows
• The state is transforming from a welfare apparatus into a security apparatus.
• The state’s core function shifted from enclosing citizens to regulating flows.
• The term racialization smuggles in an unargued critical judgment behind neutral description.
• The Tervuren Museum erased Belgian slaveholding while spotlighting Arab slavers
• The threat of dissimulation requires reading race from bodily appearance.
• The ticking-time-bomb torture scenario presupposes racialized suspicion
• The TRC’s individual-level apologies left apartheid’s architects unpunished and victims uncompensated
• The Truth Commission’s reconciliation was etymologically and structurally a religious rite.
• The unified ‘Black British’ category collapsed under internal demographic and religious differentiation.
• The US emulates Israeli techniques of racialized control elsewhere, not only supports them
• The Wall lets Israelis remain oblivious to the occupation
• The Wall will naturalize as landscape for future generations
• The war on terror’s spatial reasoning silently depends on racial discounting of local peoples
• The Welfare Queen stereotype animated 1980s attacks on the welfare state
• The welfare state has transformed into a policing state of flows.
• The white man’s burden myth framed colonial exploitation as a noble sacrifice.
• Theological equality of souls was reconciled with racial developmental hierarchy.
• Thirty Years’ War refugees filled the Cape’s early labor force
• Threat-based racial governance relies on distance and incapacitation, not engagement with its targets
• Threatened privilege drove Dutch colonists into a homogenizing white Afrikaner identity
• Three broad antiracist mobilization waves marked modern history.
• Tolerance is a power-laden denial that masks racial inequality
• Tolerance operates as a power-laden refusal of equality, not generosity.
• Tolerance presupposes the tolerator’s power over the tolerated
• Tolerance reframes denied equality as begrudged generosity
• Torture justification rests on stereotyped notions of what a terrorist looks like
• Torture justification rests on stereotyped suspicion, not verified knowledge
• Treaty-breaking with native groups permanently destroyed indigenous trust in Boer settlers.
• Treblinka alone yielded enormous plunder in 10 months of extermination
• True antiracism risks death while antiracialism opposes only a concept
• Truth Commission hearings discredited whites’ denials but left apartheid’s architects untouched.
• Truth commissions fail as national reconciliation unless wider coalitions bear across-time witness
• Truth commissions individualize harm and ignore systemic institutional violence
• Twentieth-century antiracist struggles were cross-racial and genuinely global in scope
• Unification of a colonizer state was achieved through racial identity rather than ethnic culture
• Universal love structurally requires a designated object of hate
• Universalist antiracism has admirable aspects despite its paternalistic flaws
• Unrestrained murderousness inevitably becomes self-destructive mania
• Unruly populations defined through racial extension face necropolitical discipline
• Up to twenty million enslaved Africans died in transit and bondage.
• Upward mobility in Latin America simultaneously transforms race, class, and gender identity
• Urban Cape produced racial class distinctions independent of frontier dynamics.
• Urban heterogeneity transformed race into an internal threat requiring spatial controls
• Urban segregation replaced regional divides as black urbanization expanded by 1930
• Urbanization and wars hardened racial stereotypes into claims of inherent incapacity
• US antiracist and anticolonial movements were deeply networked long before the 1960s.
• US civil rights expanded a diverse middle class while imprisonment of minorities ballooned
• US cold-war policymakers racialized Arabs as inherently prone to extremism
• US defense spending exceeded $900 billion by 2006 when total costs are counted
• US politicians have explicitly framed Mexican border crossers as terrorists
• US polling shows widespread support for identifying and excluding Muslims
• US urban black segregation increased sharply after 1950 but only in larger cities
• US visa fingerprinting targeted Muslim-majority countries while exempting European terrorist groups
• US wars functioned to prove emergent power against entrenched aristocracies
• Venezuela’s constitutions excluded Africans and indigenous people from citizenship
• Venezuela’s population data reveal a large black and mixed majority
• Venezuelan whitening policy enabled the later erasure of race from national policy
• Victorian English settlement’s defining visual marker was the red mailbox, not architecture
• Vigilante border groups embody the neoliberal model of privatized state functions
• Violence both closes down existing ways of being and can open new possibilities
• Violence can both close down and open up possibility, even at once.
• Violence deployed for security inevitably deepens the insecurity it targets.
• Violence disrupts and can both debilitate and renew its targets
• Violence includes psychic and representational forms beyond physical force
• Violence includes psychic, emotional, and conceptual harm, not only physical injury
• Violence is force that marks and transforms its object
• Violence leaves its object forcibly transformed, not merely injured physically.
• Violence pursued for security reliably produces more of the insecurity it targets.
• Violence with impunity is practiced in the name of civility
• Voltaire asserted that human races descended from separate origins
• Wars on terror obscure ongoing institutional racisms against black people globally.
• Weak mestizaje ideology correlates with erased black populations and Indian repression.
• Wealth accumulation enabled a freed slave to seed a self-governing maroon nation
• Wealth causes black Brazilians to be perceived as less black.
• Wealth shifts how people are perceived racially, literally whitening them
• Weaponizing space requires suppressing independent witnesses to succeed
• Welfare bureaucracies materially advanced historically excluded groups before 1980
• Welfare-state spaces indirectly funded postwar Britain’s alternative culture
• Western metaphysics defines human being against the racialized beastly as its negation.
• When overt racism is socially shed, its institutional force persists across all mapped regions
• White apartheid life involved large-scale denial of black suffering.
• White majority rule is unique to the Americas among colonized regions
• White pastoral literature imposed Edenic biblical meaning onto harsh colonial landscapes
• White race-national identity requires transcendental grounding because race cannot otherwise claim ontological status.
• White South Africans critiqued far-off slums while oblivious to local ones
• White victimhood narratives frame antiracism as the actual racism
• White workers cemented segregation to protect their labor advantages
• Whiteness defines the standards of merit and judgment others must aspire to
• Whiteness functions as structural privilege rather than mere social identity.
• Whiteness ideology makes racial passing unnecessary by legitimizing whitening through mixing
• Whiteness in Venezuela functions as a structural advantage rather than mere identity
• Whiteness is structurally fragile, needing constant self-assertion to sustain its privilege
• Whiteness structurally occupies top income positions in the racial state
• Whitening ideology generates envy on both sides of the black class divide
• Whitening includes geographic migration and cultural assimilation, not just biology.
• Whitening norms frame impoverishment as black and wealth as white
• Whitening operates through Christianization, urbanization, and displacement of indigenes
• Whitening operates through geographic and cultural mobility as much as biology
• Whitening pressure breeds envy and resentment among blacks across class divides
• Whites embraced pluralism partly to legitimize abandoning troubled city spaces
• Who counts as mixed varies situationally, not by phenotype alone
• Winant’s analytic vocabulary pairs neologisms to trace racism and political economy across regions
• Zero-sum invasion anxieties are racially indexed even when unspoken
• Zionist founding narrative fused insurrectionary counterhistory with the civilizing colonial burden.
• Zionist leaders themselves framed the project as European civilizing mission