Racial states are inherently violent, not merely exercises of power

Evidence

It follows that racial conditions of life as we have come to experience them throughout modernity - the racial state in that broader sense of the term identified above - are inherently violent. So racial states in both their institutional and existential senses are not simply the exercise of power but equally states of violence. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1741

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s interest in how small actions embody larger systems of harm. — connects to: State violence against racialized populations recurs across centuries and continents — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 22; Race remains a routine, current shaper of modern state violence — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1843