Racial states regulate labor, demographics, and crime as core functions

Evidence

The modern state was never simply an epiphenomenon or conduit of capital. This is especially so when one considers the state in its colonial - colonizing or colonized - form, or more broadly in its racial shape and ordering. Racial states most broadly construed, as modern states generally, often have served capital’s interests, more or less self-consciously, and certainly always have expressed its gendered interests. They have done so not least by regulating the (racially ordered and deeply gender-differentiated) labor supply and by policing the gates and terrain of bourgeois access and style, substance, and aesthetics, the shapes and roles of families. Thus they have ensured economic wellbeing for some and social law and order diffusely. Capitalist states have drawn heavily on these racial possibilities. They have concerned themselves virtually throughout their formation accordingly with three conditions that have deep racial definition: first, with regulating migration and immigration, not least with the labor supply and labor costs in mind; second, with shaping social, and particularly sexual, interaction with the view to sculpting the face of demographic definition; and third, with controlling crime, predicated primarily in relation to property rights. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1665

Categorization

• DEFINE: Characterizes the ‘racial state’ functionally via its three regulatory priorities — useful for the vault’s racial-formation grounding.
• XREF: Directly complements Omi and Winant’s racial formation and racial state concepts used across the vault. — connects to: Capitalist states regulate migration, demography, and crime in racial terms; Racial states regulate labor and family to serve capital and gender order — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 57; Racial states govern by both spatial-social restriction and criminalization — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1690 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist states regulate migration, demography, and crime in racial terms #exemplifies (0.92)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76
• Racial states govern by both spatial-social restriction and criminalization #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1690
• Racial states regulate labor and family to serve capital and gender order #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 57