State character is deeply shaped in racial terms in contemporary states.

Evidence

The personality of the state ennobles or disables certain sorts of persons and actions, orders “proper” or “improper” social relations, provides the landscape and the contours of being and longing, horizons of possibility and impermissibility in more or less acceptable or adjustable modes of belonging. In contemporary states, in those states where civility has been so much in contest, the landscape and contours of state personality have been deeply defined and refined in racial terms, figuring a racial character to state personality. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 257

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: States possess character that is shaped in racial terms — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 256; The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 30; State racial classification shapes social status, opportunity, rights, and identity. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 125 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• States possess character that is shaped in racial terms #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 256
• The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion. #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 30
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363
• States fabricate races from existing threads while racial ideas reciprocally shape the state. #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1739
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76
• State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them #expands (0.80)
• The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception #expands (0.80)
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence #expands (0.80)
• Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1885
• Racial states actively define populations into racial groups through state apparatuses #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1688
• State racial classification shapes social status, opportunity, rights, and identity. #expands (0.75) — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 125
• The racial state is instrumental in forming subjects and their bodies #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1707
• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1644