States are racial through population structuration, not personnel or policy

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

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Defines what makes a state “racial” — population definition and structuration, not merely its personnel’s racial composition or the racial implications of its policies.
• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely paradigm-shifting definitional move: the state’s racial character is located in its mode of population structuration, which recasts how one analyzes any state’s race-work.

Related

• States are racial by population-structuring but racist only when that structuring excludes (similarity 0.92)
• Racial states actively define populations into racial groups through state apparatuses (similarity 0.88)
• States possess character that is shaped in racial terms (similarity 0.87)
• States develop a character that disposes them toward populations defined by group belonging. (similarity 0.87)
• Racial states are conditions of being as well as governance structures. (similarity 0.84)
• States vary in how strongly racial classification penetrates their institutional apparatus (similarity 0.84)
• States fabricate races from existing threads while racial ideas reciprocally shape the state. (similarity 0.84)
• The racial state is a template, not a fixed form (similarity 0.83)
• State character is deeply shaped in racial terms in contemporary states. (similarity 0.83)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.82)
• State racial classification shapes social status, opportunity, rights, and identity. (similarity 0.82)
• States homogenize populations mainly through territorial boundaries that regulate cultural formation. (similarity 0.82)
• State structures shape which racial preferences people can express and act on (similarity 0.81)
• Racial states regulate labor, demographics, and crime as core functions (similarity 0.81)
• Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so (similarity 0.80)