> Well-meaning leftists who tell them that racism is in their interest are
> basically helping them to remain ignorant of working-class interests.
here's where you need to understand what substantive empirical theory is --as opposed to normative social theory. no one here is saying anyone "ought" to be racist or that the interests of a working class movement is to reinscribe racism. they are doing empirical research to examine why racism is so persistent. for you to suggest that doing such research reinscribes racism is akin to the conservative claim that affirmative action is racist because it classifies people into racial groups! it is the *same* logic at work.