Race remains a routine, current shaper of modern state violence

Evidence

Racial distinction, categorization, projection – in short, the threat of race – makes if not inevitable certainly easier the assertion, application, and targeting of terror. Race lubricates much modern institutional violence. This is not to say it does so as a stand-alone concept of production, regulation, and legitimation. It interacts with, magnifies and multiplies other categorical conceptions, formations, and rationalizations of structural privilege and denial, social elevation and exclusion. The weighting race has brought to modern social arrangements. But as a routine social fact shaping modern state violence, race is not an antiquated institutional apparatus, an antique hangover, an unfortunate holdover. Absent race, modern – and now late modern – social life would look dramatically different than it has. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1843

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State violence against racialized populations recurs across centuries and continents — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 22; Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence; The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Routine racial violence reflects ordinary participation, not aberrant soldiers #expands (0.90) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 148
• Racial states are inherently violent, not merely exercises of power #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1741
• The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion. #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 30
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363
• Race functions as the political theology of modernity, licensing institutional violence #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1826
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence #corroborates (0.80)
• The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception #corroborates (0.80)
• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1644
• Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1885
• Race lets citizens deny both state violence and their own implication in it #expands (0.80)