The state’s defining capacity to exclude is what enables racial formation

Evidence

The state qua state has the capacity to exclude (to which the law is instrumental), and it has this capacity to exclude whether within or from the state: what would a state be that were not so enabled? The state has the power by definition to assert itself or to control those (things) within the state, in short, the power to exclude from state protection. In these senses, the modern state has readily lent itself conceptually to, as it has readily been defined by, racial (and gendered) formation. For central to the sorts of racial constitution that have centrally defined modernity is the power to exclude and by extension include in racially ordered terms, to dominate through the power to categorize differentially and hierarchically, to set aside by setting apart. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 9

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Weber’s definition of the state via legitimate violence/monopoly and to Foucault’s power analytics. — connects to: States are racial by population-structuring but racist only when that structuring excludes — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1675

Related

• The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion. (similarity 0.87)
• States are racial by population-structuring but racist only when that structuring excludes (similarity 0.86)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.84)
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state, not incidental to it. (similarity 0.82)
• Racial inclusivity and exclusivity are mutually constitutive in modern states (similarity 0.82)
• Racial states are conditions of being as well as governance structures. (similarity 0.82)
• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity (similarity 0.81)
• Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so (similarity 0.81)
• States are racial through population structuration, not personnel or policy (similarity 0.81)
• State racial classification shapes social status, opportunity, rights, and identity. (similarity 0.80)
• Racial states are inherently violent, not merely exercises of power (similarity 0.80)
• Racial statecraft is normal to modernity, not an aberration (similarity 0.80)
• A racially conceived state can only express itself in racial terms (similarity 0.80)
• Scholarship has largely ignored the state’s role in reproducing racism (similarity 0.80)
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence (similarity 0.80)