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I honestly can’t give you one single quotation since the argument is kind of spread out in between a lot of anecdotes and it is left to the reader to connect the dots. He does say “Race as a form of class is very tangible, solid, material,” which is where he puts this forward most clearly in the interview I’m talking about.
He says its “socially constructed” right there! I can’t see anywhere where he says race “will always have a 1:1 relationship with class” like you claimed. Saying that he leaves it up to the reader to “connect the dots” - more accurately he doesn’t say it at all. Probably best not to make things up if you can’t find quotations to support your assertion.
I know he says its socially constructed, it’s just that, from what I understood in the interview, he believes that the US, as opposed to Europe, has this unique situation of “colour-coated classes” (pretty sure that is from the same interview) where this social construct simply lines up with class. Maybe “1:1” was a strong way of putting it. If you think I’m misreading Sakai and that his ideas are actually compatible with Marxism I would actually really like to hear it. I haven’t read Settlers yet but I was recommended the interview as an intro to Sakai by people who swear by the book.
