States defend society against imagined racial contamination

Evidence

Foucault notes in “Society Must Be Defended” that (civil) society embeds relations of domination, confrontation, and force – relations, that is, of violence. The state seeks as its principal mandate to defend (civil) society against invasion and internal danger. Against all those (threatening) assertions and assaults seen to contaminate from without and within. Against (imagined) penetration and (perceived) pollution by those deemed racially distinct. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 281