Late nineteenth-century racial rule became rule through law rather than raw force

Evidence

With historicism, the recourse to law shifts, Law becomes the primary means of racial order, (the threat of) violence now the means to ensure legal enforcement, Racial rule from the late nineteenth century becomes first and foremost rule by and through law. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 78

With historicism, the recourse to law shifts, Law becomes the primary means of racial order, (the threat of) violence now the means to ensure legal enforcement, Racial rule from the late nineteenth century becomes first and foremost rule by and through law. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 4297

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 78; David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 4297

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• Racial historicism and the rule of law co-evolved as instruments of dominance (similarity 0.83)
• Naturalist law legitimizes repression while historicist law constitutes racial order (similarity 0.83)
• Historicist regimes govern race by constituting it through law itself (similarity 0.82)
• Racial states speak through law yet can only institute racial arrangements brutally (similarity 0.82)
• State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.82)
• Racial order responded to each mobilizing threat with formal legal equality (similarity 0.81)
• Racial states are inherently violent, not merely exercises of power (similarity 0.81)
• Racial rule hides its reliance on force until crises expose it (similarity 0.81)
• Modern law manufactures the very uniformity it claims merely to recognize (similarity 0.80)
• States that promote violence must escalate coercion to maintain rule (similarity 0.79)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.79)
• British colonial rule operated through law rather than direct despotism (similarity 0.79)
• Racial states destabilize the very order they seek to impose (similarity 0.79)
• The rule of law is selectively enforced on racial groups framed as threats (similarity 0.78)
• Incoherent racial legislation required escalating violence to enforce (similarity 0.78)