The Racial Stateargues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of modern nation state formation, and to its ongoing management.
Author(s): David Theo Goldberg
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 336
INTRODUCTION: THE STATE OF RACE THEORY
The Race from State Theory
State Projects and State Powers
Outline
1. STATES OF RACIAL DISTINCTION
Cities and States
Hybridity and Homogeneity
2. THE TIME OF RACIAL STATES
States of Nature and Historical States
The Racial Obsession of Modernity
3. THE STATE OF LIBERALISM'S LIMITS
Shifting Grounds
Carlyle's Critical Caricature
Mill's Racial Rule
4. RACIAL RULE
Naturalism and Historicism
Amalgamation and Assimilation
Naturalizing Order, Historicizing Governance
Racial Subjection, Ambivalent Rule
5. RACIAL STATES
States of Racial Rule, States of Racial Being
Defining States, Refining States
Racial Subjects, Racial Selves
Racial Governmentalities
Racial States and Racist States
Racial Penetration, Racial Routinization
Racial Assertion and the Nation-State
Laying Down Racial Law
States of Racial Violence
A Racial World Order
6. LEGISLATING RACE
Law's Order
Laws of Racial Rule
Racial Restrictions
Racial Sovereignty
7. STATES OF WHITENESS
Segregating States
Cultivating Whiteness
State Stocktaking
8. RACELESS STATES
Centralizing State Racelessness
Styles of State Racelessness
Conditions and Codes of Racelessness
Racelessness as Civic Religion
Raceless Worlds
9. CONCLUSION: STATING THE DIFFERENCE
Posing the Question of Post-Racial States
Race and State Personality
The Race to State Homogeneity
Counter-Racial Questions
Traceless Citizenships
