Racial states destabilize the very order they seek to impose

Evidence

In these attempted assertions, though, racial states paradoxically divide by rule and so destabilize the very order they supposedly are designed to produce. In subjecting to (and through) race, states race subjection and so too cohere the response, reaction, and resistance by the terms through which they seek to repress. In insisting on the universalizing rationality of raced regulation, racial states delimit rationality to that of race, thus racially inscribing rationality and circumscribing reasonableness. In insisting on racial order, they impose racial violence upon the very violence they claim to be staving off, thus rattling the order they are seeking to reproduce. In the final solution, to rule racial brutes that are brutish by state assumption - brutes, as Hobbes at the dawn of the modern state insisted, are those the modern state must necessarily exclude from its domain - the brutes must all be exterminated, materially or symbolically: and this in the name of - executed by - the written law of the state. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1729

In these attempted assertions, though, racial states paradoxically divide by rule and so destabilize the very order they supposedly are designed to produce. In subjecting to (and through) race, states race subjection and so too cohere the response, reaction, and resistance by the terms through which they seek to repress. … In the final solution, to rule racial brutes that are brutish by state assumption - brutes, as Hobbes at the dawn of the modern state insisted, are those the modern state must necessarily exclude from its domain - the brutes must all be exterminated, materially or symbolically: and this in the name of - executed by - the written law of the state. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1729

Categorization

• XREF: The logic of racial repression generating the resistance it is designed to quell connects to classic analyses of apartheid South Africa and colonial rule. — connects to: Empire must keep reworking itself and can fail to secure racial regimes — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 105
• DEEPTHINKING: The paradoxical structure — repression cohering resistance, rationality delimiting itself, order imposing the violence it claims to prevent — is a dense, systemic argument that rewards sustained rereading.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1729