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The Racial State
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This book is ideal for readers interested in political theory, racial studies, sociology, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the modern state. It suits scholars, students, and professionals seeking a profound analysis of the relationship between race and national governance.
* Offers a new conceptual apparatus for thinking about developments and transformations in the a racial statea . * Integrates racial theory with state theory, arguing that race is integral to the formation and management of states.
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Recent works on racial theory and state theory have tended to ignore each other. The Racial State, by contrast, argues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of the modern nation state, and to its ongoing management.
By interrogating conceptual shifts in defining the racial state over time, Goldberg shows that debates and struggles about race in a wide variety of societies are really about the nature of political constitution and community.
The book concludes with a discussion of how state and citizenship might be reconceived on assumptions of heterogeneity, mobility, and global openness. In this way, at the same time as providing a comprehensive account of modern state formation through racial configuration, this book also rethinks contemporary racial theorizing.
The author's approach is thoroughly interdisciplinary, combining perspectives from political theory and philosophy, historical sociology and anthropology, and cultural, postcolonial and African American studies.
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Ann Laura Stoler of the University of Michigan praises the book for its powerful and historically grounded analysis of how race and state power coalesce, highlighting its combination of theoretical depth and political commitment. Lisa Lowe of the University of California recognises it as a significant contribution to racial theory and modern state formation, noting Goldberg's masterful command of political philosophy and legal theory in tracing race's role in state practices of exclusion and control.
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ISBN: 9780631199212
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 November 2001
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
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Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 231.0mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 336
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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).
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