A racial state is simultaneously all-encompassing and invisible in its effects

Evidence

In states that are racially conceived, ordered, administered, and regulated, the racial state could be said to be everywhere - and simultaneously seen nowhere. It (more or less invisibly) defines almost every relation, shapes all but every interaction, contours virtually all intercourse. It fashions not just the said and the sayable, the done and doable, possibilities and impermissibilities, but penetrates equally the scope and quality, content and character, of social silences and presumptions. The state in its racial reach and expression is thus at once supervisible in form and force and thoroughly invisible in its osmotic infusion into the everyday (Essed, 1990), its penetration into common sense, its pervasion (not to mention perversion) of the warp and weave of the social fabric. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1658

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharpens the definition of the ‘racial state’ as simultaneously pervasive and invisible — a concisely quotable formulation.
• XREF: Connects to Omi & Winant’s concept of racial formation and racial state from earlier vault sources. — connects to: The racial state is supervisible in force yet invisible in its daily osmotic reach; Race functions as an invisible borderline mark of formal belonging and permissible speech. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 909; The deeper race penetrates state bureaucracy, the more invisible it becomes (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The racial state is supervisible in force yet invisible in its daily osmotic reach #corroborates (0.95)
• The deeper race penetrates state bureaucracy, the more invisible it becomes #expands (0.85)
• Twentieth-century states claimed modernity by rendering their racial workings invisible #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 108
• Racial historicism makes racial structures invisible and absolves individuals of responsibility for them #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 123
• Race functions as an invisible borderline mark of formal belonging and permissible speech. #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 909
• Race-blindness works because racial order is already fully routinized #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 137
• Recasting race as ethnicity allows a racial hierarchy to persist unnoticed. #exemplifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3199
• Urban segregation can literally pursue invisibility of a racial group #exemplifies (0.70) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 433