The modern state has always been constitutively racial in its conception

Evidence

Race is integral to the emergence, development, and transformations (conceptually, philosophically, materially) of the modern nation-state. Race marks and orders the modern nation-state, and so state projects, more or less from its point of conceptual and institutional emergence. The apparatuses and technologies employed by modern states have served variously to fashion, modify, and reify the terms of racial expression, as well as racist exclusions and subjugation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1651 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

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; The Christian-nation quest has always served a racial hierarchy — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 546 (+19 more)

Broader Connections

• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1651
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence #corroborates (0.99)
• Modern statehood itself was constituted through racial assumption #corroborates (0.98)
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 363
• Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so #expands (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 8
• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity #corroborates (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1644