Historicist regimes govern race by constituting it through law itself
Evidence
Historicist regimes, by contrast, resort to law not so much instrumentally as constitutively, ruling racially through law, shaping race in the terms of legality, threading race through law into the very fabric of the social. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 78
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Racial governance splits between naturalist and historicist modes into distinct policy forms — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1691
Related
- Naturalist law legitimizes repression while historicist law constitutes racial order (similarity 0.87)
- Racial governance splits between naturalist and historicist modes into distinct policy forms (similarity 0.86)
- Racial historicism and the rule of law co-evolved as instruments of dominance (similarity 0.85)
- Historicist racial thought fueled abolition while naturalism underpinned slavery (similarity 0.82)
- Late nineteenth-century racial rule became rule through law rather than raw force (similarity 0.82)
- Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.82)
- Racial historicism makes racial structures invisible and absolves individuals of responsibility for them (similarity 0.80)
- Race is simultaneously discovered and constructed, natural and legal. (similarity 0.79)
- Historicist racial argumentation is harder to dismiss than biologized racism (similarity 0.79)
- Race and ethnicity cannot be understood apart from historical context. (similarity 0.79)
- Race is a distinctly modern construct central to globalization (similarity 0.79)
- State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.79)
- Race is a contemporary, evolving formation rather than a premodern leftover (similarity 0.79)
- Race naturalizes state power by presenting created hierarchies as given order (similarity 0.79)
- Race structures all major US institutions from the colonial era onward (similarity 0.78)