race

is a tool of political inanagement and social organization [that functions as] a mode or vehicle of division, separation, hierarchy, exploitation, rather than a description modifier.

In a recent work towards a political philosophy of race, Falguni Sheth (2009: 4) defines race as 'a tool of political inanagement and social organisation [that functions as] a mode or vehicle of division, separation, hierarchy, exploitation, rather than a description modifier'. The three techniques that Sheth describes in order to explain how race is deployed as a weapon for political management reflect the process of facialisation, discussed above. These are: the representation of difference as 'unruly' and in need of management... the naturalisation of the represented unrt1 liness of the difference in question... and, the consequent

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