Modern statehood itself was constituted through racial assumption

Evidence

Nation-states are the particular products of modernity. The modern nation-state comes increasingly to be constitutively ordered in and through racial configuration. By the latter half of the nineteenth century, the United States of America emerged as the beacon of modernity, the model of what a nation-state might aspire to in seeking its modernity. Its postabolition ethnoracial republicanism, civic religion and religious secularism, social segregation and aspirational colorblindness suggested the contours of modern state-making. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363 (#expands, via linked claim)

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1885; Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1683; The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration #expands (0.96) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363
• Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 8
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence #expands (0.95)