Racelessness still leaves citizens racially self-endowed through state media.
Evidence
The response to racist states is as little a call to anarchism as it is to racelessness. Rather, it is the call to rethink again and again, without end or closure, the modern(izing) terms of social relation: of statehood and citizenship, of race and its intersected modalities, of democracies and public spheres; of freedoms and private spheres; of rights and responsibilities, civilities and incivilities, Individuals as citizens of the state continue to be endowed racially (there is a sense in which as citizens they consensually are made to endow themselves as such, most notably under conditions of racelessness), just as racial configuration acquires individuated expression through the media of the state. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 144
Categorization
- QUESTION: Is ‘consensually made to endow themselves’ a coherent mechanism, or does it smuggle in the coercion it denies?
Related
- Racelessness reassigns responsibility for racial outcome from state structures to individuals (similarity 0.83)
- Race lets citizens benefit from state racism while disclaiming personal responsibility (similarity 0.82)
- Racial states are conditions of being as well as governance structures. (similarity 0.81)
- A racially conceived state can only express itself in racial terms (similarity 0.80)
- Twentieth-century states claimed modernity by rendering their racial workings invisible (similarity 0.80)
- Post-racist states must transformatively redress past racial exclusions. (similarity 0.79)
- State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.79)
- States possess character that is shaped in racial terms (similarity 0.78)