Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern

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

• DEFINE: Core clarification: race is NOT a premodern leftover but a modern state-ordering logic disguised as ancient.
• XREF: Qualifies/contrasts vault-wide usages that treat race as an archaic survivals vs. Omi-Winant racial formation’s modern-state emphasis. — connects to: Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1651; Race replaced religion as modernity’s dominant public organizing frame — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 54; Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence #corroborates (0.85)
• The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception #corroborates (0.82)
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363
• Race is a modern condition masquerading as ancient #corroborates (0.80)
• Modern statehood itself was constituted through racial assumption #corroborates (0.80)
• Race is a modern construct disguised as ancient, not a premodern condition #corroborates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 61
• The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion. #corroborates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 30
• Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1885
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76
• Race is a distinctly modern construct central to globalization #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1733
• Race is a contemporary, evolving formation rather than a premodern leftover #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 346
• Race is a modern concept tied to early global capitalism and colonial conquest. #expands (0.72) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 231
• Race has structured population membership and exclusion throughout modernity #corroborates (0.72)