Racial states’ claims of neutral adjudication conceal a ruling-race partiality

Evidence

Such mediation manages disputes and conflicts over land, labor, and mixed racial intercourse, socially and sexually. As adjudicator, the state claims a nominal neutrality. Yet its actions historically have been largely partial. In reproducing a racial system, a mode of being and governance, the actions of racial states are representative mostly of those belonging to the ruling racial class, whose racial status as privileged - indeed, as ruling - the state in its racial configuration has helped to define, refine, and promote. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1694

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial states claim neutrality while acting as agents of the ruling racial class — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1694; Federal courts tolerated self-deceiving denials of de facto segregation. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 44