States fabricate races from existing threads while racial ideas reciprocally shape the state.

Evidence

States fabricate races, imputing to them a semblance of coherence. They do not create races artificially frorp whole cloth, however, but pick up the threads for designing the racial fabric from various sources, scientific and social, legal and cultural. States then are fundamental to weaving race into the social fabric, and indeed the fabric of the modern state is fashioned with racially woven threads. States thus are endowed or endow themselves with “races”; they adjust and adopt races to governmental purposes. While states are instrumental in the institutional conceptualization of races, racial conceptions define and refine state formation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1739

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definitional passage on state invention of race as a mutually constitutive, not one-way, process.
• XREF: Directly parallels vault’s racial-formation definition that race and state co-constitute; sharpens against crude fabrication readings. — connects to: State character is deeply shaped in racial terms in contemporary states. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 257; States develop a character that disposes them toward populations defined by group belonging. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 256; Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1885 (+4 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Reciprocal-construction formulation resists one-sentence summary and bears revisiting as definitional anchor.

Broader Connections

• State apparatuses actively fashion and reify racial categories rather than merely reflect them #corroborates (0.92)
• Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1885
• Racial states actively define populations into racial groups through state apparatuses #corroborates (0.88) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1688
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence #corroborates (0.85)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 76