Race naturalizes state power by disguising its constructed character as sacred and given.
Evidence
Race is an especially convenient form of conceptual social cement here. For just as the state is an expression of power, so it is possible to reconceptualize race in terms of power. Race covers over the “magical” nature of the modern state, making its fetishistic characteristics appear all too readily as naturally given, as sacred and so unchallengeable (Taussig, 1997). Thus even the historicist conceptions of race appear naturalized. Race is conceived as a container or receptacle of power, a medium through and in the name of which power is expressed. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1737
Categorization
- DEFINE: Positions race as a medium/receptacle of power that naturalizes the state’s fetishistic basis.
- XREF: Connects to vault treatment of racialization as a vehicle of state ordering; resonates with Goldberg’s racial state concept. — connects to: Race naturalizes the magical, constructed character of state power; Race naturalizes the state’s power, making its constructions appear sacred and unchallengeable.; Race naturalizes state power by presenting created social order as given and teleological — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Race naturalizes the magical, constructed character of state power
#corroborates(0.98) - Race naturalizes the state’s power, making its constructions appear sacred and unchallengeable.
#corroborates(0.97) - Race naturalizes state power by presenting created hierarchies as given order
#corroborates(0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740 - Race naturalizes state power by presenting created social order as given and teleological
#corroborates(0.96) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740 - Race supplies the coherence that masks arbitrary state power
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