Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated
Evidence
State populations are thus homogenized through territorialized constriction and conscription. The technologies of race discussed throughout this book have played not just contingent but constitutive roles in the making of modern state populations, and also in their global circulation and circumscription. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1885
Categorization
- XREF: Bounds the work’s core thesis: race operates constitutively, not contingently, in state-building; relevant when testing the mechanism across identity axes. — connects to: Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence; Race has structured population membership and exclusion throughout modernity; Modern statehood itself was constituted through racial assumption (+12 more)
Broader Connections
- Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence
#corroborates(1.00) - Race has structured population membership and exclusion throughout modernity
#corroborates(0.95) - Modern statehood itself was constituted through racial assumption
#corroborates(0.95) - The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration
#corroborates(0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363 - Race historically shaped national population membership and its exclusions
#corroborates(0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1773 - The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception
#corroborates(0.95) - The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion.
#corroborates(0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 30 - Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories
#corroborates(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76