Racial states regulate labor and family to serve capital and gender order

Evidence

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. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 57

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. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1665

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘policing the gates of bourgeois access and style, substance and aesthetics’ line echoes the reader’s earlier material on sumptuary norms and class/identity signaling. — connects to: A seminary’s gender hierarchy was enforced by economic control of households — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 159; Racial states regulate labor, demographics, and crime as core functions — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1665
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 57; David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1665