The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion.

Evidence

As much as the modern state has been about anything - about increasing bureaucratization and rationalization, about increasingly sophisticated forms of democratization and social control, about the rule of law and the control of capital — it has been about increasingly sophisticated forms and techniques of racial formation, power, and exclusion. The modern state, it foHows, has been about keeping racially characterized others more or less “out,” and about regulating otherness in spaces increasingly determined, defined, and rationally regulated by the state. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 30

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the thesis advanced in Goldberg’s opening chapters and to the broader critical race theory literature on state formation. — 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; Liberalism historically promoted racial reasoning and racist exclusions as central to state formation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1654 (+2 more)

Related

• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity (similarity 0.88)
• The state’s defining capacity to exclude is what enables racial formation (similarity 0.87)
• Race remains a routine, current shaper of modern state violence (similarity 0.87)
• Race constitutively shaped how modern state populations were formed and circulated (similarity 0.87)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.87)
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. (similarity 0.86)
• Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern (similarity 0.85)
• Racial statecraft is normal to modernity, not an aberration (similarity 0.85)
• State character is deeply shaped in racial terms in contemporary states. (similarity 0.84)
• States are racial by population-structuring but racist only when that structuring excludes (similarity 0.84)
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration (similarity 0.84)
• Scholarship has largely ignored the state’s role in reproducing racism (similarity 0.84)
• Liberalism historically promoted racial reasoning and racist exclusions as central to state formation. (similarity 0.84)
• Race functions as a core structuring technology of neoliberal state formation (similarity 0.84)
• Race is a contemporary, evolving formation rather than a premodern leftover (similarity 0.83)