State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them

Evidence

As modern states paradigmatically understood, racial states are no exception. Their very modernity is ordered through the racial configuration of law, and the legal fashioning of racial definition and articulation. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76 (#expands, via linked claim)

Characterizations of people and things not only lodge in the tenacious hold of words: they burrow into bodies and then re-emerge as resurrected knowledge, upholding oppositional positions as they take on new political forms. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 993 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The category of the Other precedes and enables material oppression, not vice versa — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 147; Racial ideology actively constitutes labor regimes rather than merely justifying them — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1448; States build durable categories that tie unequal rights to separated groups. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 553 (+23 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76
• Racial categories lodge in bodies and re-emerge as political positions. #complicates (0.72) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 993