Foucault, dealing with racism and its inscription in the mechanisms of the state and power, noted in this regard that “the modern State can scarcely function without becoming involved with racism at some point, within certain limits and subject to certain conditions.” Race or racism, “in a normalizing society,” he noted, “is the precondition that makes killing acceptable.” He concludes, “Once the State functions in the biopower mode, racism alone can justify the murderous functions of the State.”
Mbembe, in THE SUBJECT OF RACE 88, Critique of Black Reason, citing Foucault, Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–76, trans. David Macey (New York: Picador, 2003), 254–56.
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