States are racial by population-structuring but racist only when that structuring excludes
Evidence
States are racial more deeply because of the structural position they occupy in producing and reproducing, constituting and effecting racially shaped spaces and places, groups and events, life worlds and possibilities, accesses and restrictions, inclusions and exclusions, conceptions and modes of representation. They are racial, in short, in virtue of their modes of population definition, determination, and structuration. And they are racist to the extent such definition, determination, and structuration operate to exclude or privilege in or on racial terms, and in so far as they circulate in and reproduce a world whose meanings and effects are racist. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1675
Categorization
- DEFINE: Sharpens the racial-versus-racist state distinction as one of definition/structuration vs. exclusionary effect.
- XREF: Connects to vault usage of the racial state from Goldberg and to racial formation via state structuration of populations. — connects to: Presidential discourse reduces racism to lingering individual heart-states divorced from institutions. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 131; States are racial through population structuration, not personnel or policy; States are racial through population definition, not just personnel or policy (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- States are racial through population structuration, not personnel or policy
#corroborates(0.90) - States are racial through population definition, not just personnel or policy
#corroborates(0.90) - Racialization and racism are distinct empirical states
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1908 - 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 - The state’s defining capacity to exclude is what enables racial formation
#complicates(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 9