Race marks physical traits while nation marks imagined shared origins.

Evidence

Race may be thought of as the social or cultural significance assigned to or assumed in physical or biological markers of human beings, including the presumed physical or physiognomic markers of cultural attributes, habits, or behavior. Nation, by contrast, is the significance of cultural markers as assumed or assigned (imagined) indicators of common originary belonging, where race (or ethnicity, as cultural socialization) might be one of those (imagined) markers assigned significance or dominance in picking out members. Where this is so, race and nation overlap, more or less isomorphically. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1714

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional distinction between race (physical marker significance) and nation (imagined originary belonging) — exactly what the reader seeks.
• XREF: Connects to and sharpens the race-ethnicity-nation distinctions already floating in the vault (Omi & Winant claims, ethnicity paradigm critiques). — connects to: South African nation-building cohered through a shared white racial identity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1473
• QUESTION: Useful to check how this race/nation split maps onto the vault’s existing treatment of civic vs ethnic nationalism.

Broader Connections

• South African nation-building cohered through a shared white racial identity #exemplifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1473