Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so

Evidence

Modern states are racial in their modernity, and modern in their racial quality, their raciality. And in that sense any modern racial state is at once a gendered state, and vice versa, its racial and gendered conditions expressed in and through the terms of each other. The modern state is racially conceived and expressed through its gendered configurations, and it assumes gendered definition and specificity through its racial fashioning. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 8

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that every modern state is fundamentally racial and gendered in its very constitution, mutually expressed through each other, overturns liberal accounts treating race and gender as incidental.
• XREF: connects to: Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1651; Racial statecraft is normal to modernity, not an aberration — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1703

Related

• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.86)
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. (similarity 0.86)
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration (similarity 0.86)
• Racial statecraft is normal to modernity, not an aberration (similarity 0.86)
• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity (similarity 0.85)
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence (similarity 0.84)
• Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern (similarity 0.84)
• A racially conceived state can only express itself in racial terms (similarity 0.84)
• Race is a modern construct disguised as ancient, not a premodern condition (similarity 0.83)
• The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion. (similarity 0.83)
• Race is a distinctly modern construct central to globalization (similarity 0.82)
• The state and race are not conceptually discrete phenomena (similarity 0.82)
• State character is deeply shaped in racial terms in contemporary states. (similarity 0.82)
• Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated (similarity 0.82)
• Race is a contemporary, evolving formation rather than a premodern leftover (similarity 0.82)