Postsegregation white conservatives perceived the state as serving black Americans

Evidence

For conservatives, the effect of the Civil Rights successes in the US was to read the state as being in the service of brown and especially black Americans. It had become, for African Americans, the largest postsegregation employer, the instrument of affirmative action, the educator of choice if not necessity, the guarantor of welfare rights when all else failed (or in this dismissive scheme of things more likely as the first resort), the underwriter of housing for those who might otherwise have none. In short, the state was seen by racial conservationists to have been metamorphosed by the Civil Rights revolution into a black institution, or at least one whose mission was now foremostly to serve the interests of African Americans. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 444

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the conservationist reading of the state as ‘a black institution’ — the perception that later justifies gutting state capacity.
• XREF: connects to: Neoconservatives recoded the state itself as a threatening black institution — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1763