So in the case of race, it’s not that race is a practical or a priori real/rational way to organize society. Rather “scientific” racializing practices (ie. blood quantum) create a conception of race.

For a modern example, the book Racecraft by the Fields sisters talks about how rigorous bullshit practices do social/psychological, not practical work. These practices claim to explain the world but instead they generate the reality they claim to describe

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