Racial states actively define populations into racial groups through state apparatuses
Evidence
In their particularities, then, racial states oversee a range of institutional, definitive, and disciplinary practices. They are engaged in definition, regulation, governance, management, and mediation of racial matters they at once help to fashion and facilitate. For one, racial states define populations into racially identified groups, and they do so more or less formally through census taking, law, and policy, in and through bureaucratic forms, and administrative practices. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1688
Categorization
- DEFINE: States the constitutive mechanism of racial definition — census, law, policy, bureaucracy — that grounds the vault’s working definition of racialization by the state.
- XREF: Mirrors the Learned-example territory of colonial censuses reifying race/caste categories (colonial classification material in Along the Archival Grain and A Mission to Civilize entries). — connects to: State character is deeply shaped in racial terms in contemporary states. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 257; States develop a character that disposes them toward populations defined by group belonging. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 256; States are racial by population-structuring but racist only when that structuring excludes — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1675 (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- States are racial through population definition, not just personnel or policy
#corroborates(1.00) - State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them
#corroborates(1.00) - States are racial through population structuration, not personnel or policy
#corroborates(1.00) - Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated
#expands(0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1885 - Race is actively constructed through the ongoing act of defining groups.
#expands(0.85) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 108 - The racial state is instrumental in forming subjects and their bodies
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1707 - Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76 - States possess character that is shaped in racial terms
#corroborates(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 256 - State racial classification shapes social status, opportunity, rights, and identity.
#expands(0.80) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 125 - The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration
#expands(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363