Yes! Race is indicative of a system. As Patrick Wolfe said in his book "Traces of History", race is always already an ism. https://twitter.com/alexispauline/status/1388518983163334661

This is what led me to coining the term race/ism in 2016.

Why?

I have a few reasons:

• race should never be spoken of independently of racism because race is the child of racism

• it contains break in the word, a signage that creates a pause & consciousness of that relation

Also, the 1st point in the last tweet is basically what the 2nd chapter of my dissertation is about. It was published last year.

McLean, SA. 2020. “Social Constructions, Historical Grounds.” Practicing Anthropology. 42(3): 40–44.

Link to the PDF: http://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/64009443/McLea …