Colonialism advanced state formation by racially ordering the colonized exterior

Evidence

The colonial project, necessarily racially configured, is accordingly an expansion of modern state definition. … It follows that colonialism, from the point of view of the state, was about policing, securing, and controlling the outside of the colonizing (European) state power. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 1530

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial encounter simultaneously produced urban modernity, robust mixture, and ruled racial division — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1307; Stereotypes become dominant colonial ideology only once empire gains material power — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 153; Eighteenth-century civility and state formation were structured by racial dominance — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 241 (+1 more)

Related

• Racial-state assumptions made the colonial project conceivable in the first place (similarity 0.85)
• Racial states form and persist through relational positioning in a global colonial arrangement. (similarity 0.84)
• Eighteenth-century civility and state formation were structured by racial dominance (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial settings elevated the European proletariat into whiteness (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial encounter simultaneously produced urban modernity, robust mixture, and ruled racial division (similarity 0.82)
• Colonizing states manufactured internal homogeneity while colonial states managed difference (similarity 0.81)
• The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion. (similarity 0.81)
• European racialism justified colonial expansion and rule (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial states ruled colonized populations chiefly through Western law and race (similarity 0.81)
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration (similarity 0.81)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.80)
• Postcolonial states inherit colonial divisions that block formation of civic unity (similarity 0.80)
• State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.80)
• European states were deeply shaped by their colonial experiences (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial status means an external ruling class, not mere dependence (similarity 0.80)