States develop a character that disposes them toward populations defined by group belonging.

Evidence

Elsewhere I have referred to this mix of institutional character and its permissible scope and styles of expression, relation, discontent, and response as the “personality” of the state, as “state character.” The state and the social life it shapes, enables, supports or enervates, as well as the global relations states anchor, take on a particular character or hue as a consequence, a disposition towards people defined as and in terms of population or group belonging. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 256

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the author’s concept of ‘state character/personality’ as institutional disposition toward groups.
• XREF: connects to: Racial states actively define populations into racial groups through state apparatuses — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1688; State populations are homogenized through territorialized power that fashions them.; States possess character that is shaped in racial terms — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 256 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• States are racial through population definition, not just personnel or policy #corroborates (0.93)
• Racial states actively define populations into racial groups through state apparatuses #expands (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1688
• States possess character that is shaped in racial terms #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 256
• Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1885
• 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
• State populations are homogenized through territorialized power that fashions them. #expands (0.80)
• Racialized unruly populations become targets of states of exception #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1750