Deracializing the state means pluralizing governance rather than merely ending segregation.
Evidence
Deracializing amounts to dehomogenizing the state, heterogenizing forms of governance and being, loosening if not splintering the grip, the vice, of the racial imaginary on the state and of the state on racial configuration. … Here citizenship is to be premised rather on openness and flows than on stasis and fixity, on heterogeneities rather than homogeneity. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 141
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘deracializing’ as dehomogenization of the state, reshaping both governance forms and state-citizenhood as flow and openness.
Related
- Racial states are conditions of being as well as governance structures. (similarity 0.80)
- Racial fixity increases precisely as population heterogeneity grows (similarity 0.79)
- Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so (similarity 0.79)
- Heterogeneity precedes and even prompts claims to purity, not merely negates them. (similarity 0.79)
- The racial state is a template, not a fixed form (similarity 0.79)
- States homogenize populations mainly through territorial boundaries that regulate cultural formation. (similarity 0.79)
- Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.79)
- Post-racist states must transformatively redress past racial exclusions. (similarity 0.78)