Description
Book SynopsisArgues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of the modern nation state, and to its ongoing management. This book shows that debates and struggles about race in a wide variety of societies are really about the nature of political constitution and community.
Trade Review"Goldberg offers a compelling, historically grounded and powerful set of analytic tools to understand the pernicious synergy on which racisms and modern states have thrived. The Racial State offers that rare form of engaged scholarship speaks to the theoretical and the everyday, that joins analytic innovation and nuance, political commitment, and historical breadth." (
Ann Laura Stoler, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
"The Racial State is a worthy contribution, following Omi and Winant's theory, to our understanding of modern racial formation. Commanding the canon of political philosophy and legal theory, Goldberg provides us with a thorough account of how racial distinction, exclusion, management and terror have been historically the reason and practice of the modern state." (Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments.
Introduction: The State of Race Theory.
1. States of Racial Distinction.
2. The Time of Racial States.
3. The State of Liberalism’s Limits.
4. Racial Rule.
5. Racial States.
6. Legislating Race.
7. States of Whiteness.
8. Raceless States.
9. Conclusion: Stating the Difference.
Bibliography.
Index.
