A racially conceived state can only express itself in racial terms

Evidence

But once institutionalized in and through the state, the state now racially conceived cannot speak, cannot state itself, other than in the terms of race. So modernity’s race to the state became at once the stating of race, its institutional assertion. Race stated, in short, is the state raced. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 67

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core thesis ‘race stated is the state raced’ — the pithy formulation of the book’s argument.

Related

• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. (similarity 0.84)
• States can assert racial projects without ever naming race explicitly (similarity 0.84)
• The state and race are not conceptually discrete phenomena (similarity 0.84)
• Extreme racial states come to make race stand for everything (similarity 0.84)
• Racial states are conditions of being as well as governance structures. (similarity 0.84)
• Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so (similarity 0.84)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.83)
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence (similarity 0.82)
• Race is a modern construct disguised as ancient, not a premodern condition (similarity 0.82)
• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity (similarity 0.82)
• States fabricate races from existing threads while racial ideas reciprocally shape the state. (similarity 0.82)
• Anti-racist politics that centers race tends to reinscribe the very exclusions it opposes (similarity 0.82)
• State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.81)
• Racial statecraft is normal to modernity, not an aberration (similarity 0.81)
• The racial state is a template, not a fixed form (similarity 0.81)