Twentieth-century states claimed modernity by rendering their racial workings invisible

Evidence

Against this background, the modern state in the twentieth century came to promote its claims to modernization more and more through its insistence upon racelessness. That is to say, through its insistence upon rendering invisible the racial sinews of the body politic and modes of rule and regulation. Racelessness came to represent state rationality regarding race. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 108

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the author’s earlier argument that states assumed modernity through their racial elaboration. — connects to: Colonial maps and modern network diagrams both render non-valued entities invisible. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 312; A racial state is simultaneously all-encompassing and invisible in its effects — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1658

Related

• A racial state is simultaneously all-encompassing and invisible in its effects (similarity 0.84)
• Race is a modern construct disguised as ancient, not a premodern condition (similarity 0.82)
• States can assert racial projects without ever naming race explicitly (similarity 0.81)
• The modern state has been centrally shaped by racial formation and exclusion. (similarity 0.81)
• Modern statehood is constitutively racial and gendered, not contingently so (similarity 0.81)
• The modern nation-state is constitutively ordered through racial configuration (similarity 0.81)
• Deep state penetration makes race’s operation in governing relatively invisible (similarity 0.81)
• Modern racial states are constituted through the legal fashioning of racial categories (similarity 0.80)
• Race is constitutive of the modern nation-state from its emergence (similarity 0.80)
• A racially conceived state can only express itself in racial terms (similarity 0.80)
• The racial state is normal, not exceptional, to modernity (similarity 0.80)
• Race is a modern construct that states adopt to become modern (similarity 0.80)
• Racelessness still leaves citizens racially self-endowed through state media. (similarity 0.80)
• Race is a distinctly modern construct central to globalization (similarity 0.80)
• Race is a modern condition masquerading as ancient (similarity 0.80)