Racial states claim neutrality while acting as agents of the ruling racial class

Evidence

Finally, racial states not only regulate but also claim to mediate relations between those {self-)identified as “white” or “European” and those declared “nonwhite” or “Native.” 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

• DEFINE: Gives the mechanism by which a state counts as a ‘racial state’: it does not merely regulate but also adjudicates interracial disputes under a described neutrality that masks representational bias.
• ADDENDUM: Directly informs how states adjudicate land and labor disputes between colonizer and colonized populations, paralleling the French colonial courts in A Mission to Civilize.
• XREF: connects to: Racial states’ claims of neutral adjudication conceal a ruling-race partiality — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1694; States possess character that is shaped in racial terms — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 256; State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial states’ claims of neutral adjudication conceal a ruling-race partiality #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1694
• Racially harmful policies are enacted under facially neutral justifications #exemplifies (0.90) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 563
• State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them #corroborates (0.80)
• States possess character that is shaped in racial terms #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 256
• Racial states actively define populations into racial groups through state apparatuses #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1688
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories #corroborates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76