Eighteenth-century civility and state formation were structured by racial dominance

Evidence

It begins to become evident here that the emergence of modern forms of civility in the eighteenth century is more than just casually inflected with racial (which is also to say class and gendered) hues. There’s a sense in which such modes are structured racially. Relations of racial dominance, their conception and legitimation, are structuring features of modern civil society and modern state formation. The discourses on national character that mark the latter half of the eighteenth century are discourses characterizing national self-conception in deeply marked racial terms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 241

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reader’s threatened-privilege literature and Hall’s claims that racism shaped the modern state formation. — connects to: Race gained formal codification and state authority from the eighteenth century; Race as a configured ideology only appears after the late eighteenth century; Colonialism advanced state formation by racially ordering the colonized exterior — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 1530 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Race gained formal codification and state authority from the eighteenth century #corroborates (0.95)
• Modern civility is racially structured at its foundations #expands (0.95)
• Colonialism advanced state formation by racially ordering the colonized exterior #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 1530
• Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1885
• Race naturalizes state power by presenting created social order as given and teleological #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740
• Racial categories were administratively imposed on people formerly counted as white in the 1760s #exemplifies (0.80)
• Eighteenth-century ethnology fused bodily and cultural notions of race together #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 137
• Racial historicism and the rule of law co-evolved as instruments of dominance #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 78
• Eighteenth-century naturalists laid groundwork for scientific racism as ideology justifying slavery #exemplifies (0.80)
• Eighteenth-century classification reduced heterogeneous peoples to orderable types #expands (0.80)
• Race as a configured ideology only appears after the late eighteenth century #qualifies (0.75)
• Race as a configuration dates only from the late eighteenth century #qualifies (0.75)
• Racial compromises have sustained liberalism’s dominance in modern state formation #corroborates (0.72)
• Colonial racism generalized aristocratic superiority to justify empire and shore up domestic class rule #complicates (0.70) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 571