The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration

Evidence

Nation-states are the particular products of modernity. The modern nation-state comes increasingly to be constitutively ordered in and through racial configuration. By the latter half of the nineteenth century, the United States of America emerged as the beacon of modernity, the model of what a nation-state might aspire to in seeking its modernity. Its postabolition ethnoracial republicanism, civic religion and religious secularism, social segregation and aspirational colorblindness suggested the contours of modern state-making. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1885; Race remains a routine, current shaper of modern state violence — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1843; Defending a Christian nation has meant defending the racial order — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 476 (+8 more)