Race is a distinctly modern construct central to globalization

Evidence

Race is a foundational pillar of modernizing globalization, both shaping and coloring the structures of modern being and belonging, development and dislocation, state dynamism and social stasis. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1733

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the racism debate with Milgrom on pre-state trade institutions — both argue modern economic/political orders built on structures popular imagination treats as antique. — connects to: Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1683
• DEFINE: Establishes the book’s core definitional claim: race as modern rather than premodern vestige.