Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it.

Evidence

Race is integral to the emergence, development, and transformations (conceptually, philosophically, materially) of the modern nation-state. Race marks and orders the modern nation-state, and so state projects, more or less from its point of conceptual and institutional emergence. The apparatuses and technologies employed by modern states have served variously to fashion, modify, and reify the terms of racial expression, as well as racist exclusions and subjugation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1651

Categorization

• XREF: Sharpens the vault’s working definition of racialization/racial formation by insisting race is constitutive of (not merely present within) the modern state — connects to Omi & Winant’s racial formation theory and my rule-of-law/state citations. — connects to: The state and race are not conceptually discrete phenomena — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1650; Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence; The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1644 (+6 more)
• DEFINE: Roots the ‘racial state’ concept in a definitional claim about race being integral to state emergence, worth contrasting with narrower formulations elsewhere in the vault that treat race as state-applied policy rather than state-making.

Broader Connections

• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence #corroborates (0.98)
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363
• Racial statecraft is normal to modernity, not an aberration #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1703
• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1644
• Race operates as an active structuring principle of present society, not a residue. #expands (0.85)
• Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 8
• Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern #exemplifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1683
• Race as a concept can overarch class, gender, and region to unify a nation #expands (0.70)