Race naturalizes state power by presenting created hierarchies as given order

Evidence

That race is a marker, an expression, indeed, constitutive of modern relations of power makes it especially amenable to the expression of state power, one might say, to the central defining condition of modern statehood per se. Through race there is displaced from the modern state, covered over, the raw expression of state power. Such power, nothing more than created, is projected through racial terms as the given order of things, seemingly intractable and so established by natural or teleological law. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes race’s role as covering-over mechanism that naturalizes modern state power.
• XREF: Connects to Omi & Winant’s racial formation and racialization definitions already used in vault; this pushes toward race as state-constitutive rather than merely socially constructed. — connects to: Race naturalizes state power by disguising its constructed character as sacred and given. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1737; 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; Race naturalizes the magical, constructed character of state power (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Race naturalizes state power by presenting created social order as given and teleological #expands (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1740
• Race supplies the coherence that masks arbitrary state power #corroborates (0.90)
• Racecraft naturalizes hierarchy so the subordinated consent to their own subordination #expands (0.88) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 461
• Race naturalizes the magical, constructed character of state power #expands (0.85)
• Racial states actively define populations into racial groups through state apparatuses #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1688
• State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them #expands (0.80)