Racial statecraft is normal to modernity, not an aberration

Evidence

In these many microexpressions, as well as more explicitly at the macro level, the racially conceived and reproducing state is characteristic of, not exceptional to, modernity. Modernity is defined by racial conditions even as it characterizes those conditions as abnormal or exceptional. So while racist states may seem exceptional, their very possibility is underpinned by the normalcy of the racial state. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1703

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames ‘racial state’ as the baseline condition of modernity, distinguishing it from exceptional racist regimes.
• XREF: Sharply qualifies vault summaries that treat racism as deviation from liberal state norms; resonates with Mill’s and Mills’s racial-contract reading of statehood. — connects to: Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1651; The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1644; Modernity itself can enable rather than counter genocidal racial hatred (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1644
• The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception #corroborates (1.00)
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence #corroborates (0.95)
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363
• State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them #expands (0.90)
• Modernity itself can enable rather than counter genocidal racial hatred #expands (0.85)
• Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 8
• Race is a modern construct disguised as ancient, not a premodern condition #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 61
• Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1683
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76
• Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues #expands (0.80)
• Historical race relations operate as active structural principles, not residues #expands (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 636
• Racial states are conditions of being as well as governance structures. #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1660