States reinscribed threatened national homogeneity in economic and legal terms.

Evidence

Consider as an example Latin American (mainly Mexican) casta paintings, reflections of and upon prevailing racial hierarchies and the institutionalized and institutionalizing orderings they represent (see Chapter 6 for elaboration). Modern states streamlined identity, ordering character in terms of culture, deeply etched in racial colors. Individual character and state personality were interwoven through the bio-social and bio-cultural ties of citizens. Socio-cultural homogeneity was often tied to ascribed (if not prescribed) biological constitution identified by racial markers. Where threatened, these homogeneities required repeated reinscription in economic, legal, and cultural terms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 258

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences the reader’s threatened-homogeneity-reinscription mechanism in a visual culture case — casta paintings — a non-US axis that could strengthen a generalization test. — connects to: Racial categories persist by being recoded as threats to fiscal and social security — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1758; States use law to shape a specific type of citizen and civilization — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 924

Broader Connections

• Racial categories persist by being recoded as threats to fiscal and social security #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1758
• States use law to shape a specific type of citizen and civilization #expands (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 924