Race is a modern condition masquerading as ancient
Evidence
Race then is not a premodern condition but a quintessentially modern one masquerading in the guise of the given and the ancient, bloodlines and genetic pools. States have acquired their modernity more or less and partially through racial assumption, through being drawn into the terms and forms, shapes and spaces, temporalities and rhythms of racial world ordering and world racial definition. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1683
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: Challenges the popular assumption that racism is ‘primitive’ or premodern; echoes a Foucauldian reading of modernity.
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim that racial modernity masquerades as ancient bloodlines is a paradigm-level inversion worth sitting with.
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- Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence (similarity 0.87)
- Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern (similarity 0.86)
- Race is a modern concept barely existing before the Enlightenment (similarity 0.85)
- Ancient notions of race as biology do not match reality (similarity 0.84)
- Race is a modern concept tied to early global capitalism and colonial conquest. (similarity 0.84)
- Race itself is not a rationalization but the embodiment of power relations. (similarity 0.83)
- The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity (similarity 0.82)
- Race as a configuration dates only from the late eighteenth century (similarity 0.82)
- Racial statecraft is normal to modernity, not an aberration (similarity 0.82)
- Race scholarship challenges the clean divide between modern science and ethnoscience (similarity 0.81)
- Racist ideas and practices predate the modern term and European modernity. (similarity 0.81)
- Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. (similarity 0.81)