Race functions as a core structuring technology of neoliberal state formation

Evidence

I am suggesting accordingly that race is a key structuring technology not just of modern state formation but also more contemporarily of neoliberalism as the driving condition of late modern capitalist state formation. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1770

Categorization

• DEFINE: Positions race not as a social residue but as an active structuring technology of the neoliberal order — a reframe of the standard ‘race persists’ narrative.
• XREF: Connects to claims about how structural systems redeploy rather than retire — parallels the ‘state restructured rather than purged’ logic in the opening passage. — connects to: Neoliberal urban governance produces racially differentiated poverty through market mechanisms — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 5; the MOC “The Forge and the Other: How Power, Discourse, and Encounter Cast the Self”