States vary in how strongly racial classification penetrates their institutional apparatus
Evidence
A state unambiguously committed to insistent and reductive racial definition, a state in which racial definition is routinized through its state apparatuses and penetrates its agencies, is likely a state committed to strongly explicit and enforced forms of racist exclusion. A state that is weakly racial — that may invoke racial classification in record-keeping, say, with an eye to tracking historical discrimination — does not necessarily promote racist exclusions, though it may sustain (at least by ignoring) a culture of racist derogation in civil society and social institutions. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 135
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces the strong-versus-weak racial state distinction, a conceptual framework for classifying regimes.
Related
- State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.84)
- States are racial through population structuration, not personnel or policy (similarity 0.84)
- The racial state is a template, not a fixed form (similarity 0.82)
- Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.82)
- States are racial by population-structuring but racist only when that structuring excludes (similarity 0.81)
- State racial classification shapes social status, opportunity, rights, and identity. (similarity 0.81)
- Scholarship has largely ignored the state’s role in reproducing racism (similarity 0.81)
- States possess character that is shaped in racial terms (similarity 0.80)
- Racial states actively define populations into racial groups through state apparatuses (similarity 0.80)
- Racial states are conditions of being as well as governance structures. (similarity 0.80)
- States can assert racial projects without ever naming race explicitly (similarity 0.80)
- State law must actively refuse racist practice rather than claim colorblindness (similarity 0.79)
- Race and racism must be distinguished analytically and politically (similarity 0.79)
- Racial states are inherently violent, not merely exercises of power (similarity 0.79)
- States differ between those tolerating racism and those founded on it (similarity 0.79)