The Racial State

The Racial State argues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of modern nation state formation, and to its ongoing management.

David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the system wide University of California Humanities research Institute and professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. His previous publications include Racist Culture (Blackwell Publishers, 1993) and Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Publishers, 1994).

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction: The State of Race Theory

1

(1)

The Race from State Theory

2

(5)

State Projects and State Powers

7

(4)

Outline

11

(3)

States of Racial Distinction

14

(22)

Cities and States

16

(8)

Hybridity and Homogeneity

24

(12)

The Time of Racial States

36

(21)

States of Nature and Historical States

39

(10)

The Racial Obsession of Modernity

49

(8)

The State of Liberalism's Limits

57

(17)

Shifting Grounds

57

(2)

Carlyle's Critical Caricature

59

(4)

Mill's Racial Rule

63

(11)

Racial Rule

74

(24)

Naturalism and Historicism

74

(6)

Amalgamation and Assimilation

80

(5)

Naturalizing Order, Historicizing Governance

85

(3)

Racial Subjection, Ambivalent Rule

88

(10)

Racial States

98

(40)

States of Racial Rule, States of Racial Being

98

(3)

Defining States, Refining States

101

(3)

Racial Subjects, Racial Selves

104

(5)

Racial Governmentalities

109

(3)

Racial States and Racist States

112

(3)

Racial Penetration, Racial Routinization

115

(3)

Racial Assertion and the Nation-State

118

(4)

Laying Down Racial Law

122

(7)

States of Racial Violence

129

(3)

A Racial World Order

132

(6)

Legislating Race

138

(22)

Law's Order

139

(2)

Laws of Racial Rule

141

(7)

Racial Restrictions

148

(6)

Racial Sovereignty

154

(6)

States of Whiteness

160

(40)

Segregating States

164

(7)

Cultivating Whiteness

171

(17)

State Stocktaking

188

(12)

Raceless States

200

(39)

Centralizing State Racelessness

203

(7)

Styles of State Racelessness

210

(11)

Conditions and Codes of Racelessness

221

(8)

Racelessness as Civic Religion

229

(5)

Raceless Worlds

234

(5)

Conclusion: Stating the Difference

239

(39)

Posing the Question of Post-racial States

239

(5)

Race and State Personality

244

(4)

The Race to State Homogeneity

248

(6)

Counter-racial Questions

254

(9)

Traceless Citizenships

263

(15)

Bibliography

278

(26)

Index

304

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