Why the racial order remains invisible: Answer is in the machinery that sustains it
If this racialized world order is so pervasive and structurally embedded, why, one may ask, does it remain largely invisible in the global political consciousness? The answer lies in the epistemic machinery that sustains it.Across the world, discrimination assumes diverse forms, some ancient, some modern, some fading, some intensifying. However, colour-based racial prejudice is distinctive for its structural permanence. Other stigmas can be shed, outgrown, or performed away; race, particularly colour-coded race, offers no such exit – it is read as inherited and publicly legible. This…
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