Sovereignty has historically manifested as the state of whiteness

Evidence

America has sought to elevate itself to the self-declared world sovereign. Israel then is its troubled double, its frankensteinian shadow, at once mimic and model. This power over death, racially produced and performed, means nothing less than that sovereignty, historically, has manifested itself as the state of whiteness par excellence. Only now the sovereign power over death has become more tenuous, cut adrift from the anchor of classical racial conception, challenged by those willing as a social force to take their own lives as they take those of others in the name of a counter-history. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 704

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The compression of sovereignty, whiteness, and the power over death into a single claim, then immediately destabilized by suicidal counter-history, is dense enough to sit with.
• XREF: Connects to Mbembe’s necropolitics and the reader’s existing material on ritual sacrifice as a stabilizer of stratified societies.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 704