Post-racist states must transformatively redress past racial exclusions.
Evidence
States after racism would demand that the debilitating and distorting impacts of the histories of racial exclusions, institutional and individual, be transformatively addressed, with sensitivity and civility. … All this, in turn, presupposes a dramatically altered conception of citizenship. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 141
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes a post-racist state’s affirmative duty from mere abolition of racial taxonomies.
Related
- State law must actively refuse racist practice rather than claim colorblindness (similarity 0.85)
- Postwar U.S. racial history reversed from despotism transformation to containment (similarity 0.81)
- The racial state is a template, not a fixed form (similarity 0.80)
- Racism emerges where race discourse meets the state (similarity 0.80)
- A racially conceived state can only express itself in racial terms (similarity 0.79)
- Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.79)
- Scholarship has largely ignored the state’s role in reproducing racism (similarity 0.79)
- State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.79)
- Post-racial claims actually deny ongoing racism rather than racial identity (similarity 0.79)
- Racelessness still leaves citizens racially self-endowed through state media. (similarity 0.79)
- Anti-racist politics that centers race tends to reinscribe the very exclusions it opposes (similarity 0.79)
- Racial reform requires state response to movements that arise amid institutional decay (similarity 0.79)
- Racial states are conditions of being as well as governance structures. (similarity 0.79)
- Racial states are inherently violent, not merely exercises of power (similarity 0.78)
- Deracializing the state means pluralizing governance rather than merely ending segregation. (similarity 0.78)