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As he writes in Habeas Viscus, “Rather than using biopolitics as a modality of analysis that supersedes or sidelines race, I stress that race be placed front and center in considerations of political violence, albeit not as a biological or cultural classification but as a set of sociopolitical processes of differentiation and hierarchization, which are projected onto the putatively biological human body.

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cultural

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Why does the author emphasize the importance of considering race as a set of sociopolitical processes in the analysis of political violence, instead of treating it as a biological or cultural classification?

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The author emphasizes the importance of considering race as a set of sociopolitical processes in the analysis of political violence because it allows for a focus on the ways in which race is used to differentiate and create hierarchies among people, rather than simply relying on biological or cultural classifications. By placing race front and center in considerations of political violence, it helps to better understand the complex interactions and power dynamics at play, as well as the potentially harmful consequences of such differentiation and hierarchization.