The Racial State

by David Theo Goldberg

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.

Genres: Race, Philosophy, Sociology, Nonfiction, Politics

334 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

*Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the University of California system-wide research facility for the human sciences and theoretical research in the arts.
*Professor of Comparative Literature and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute

Reviews

[Ash Chamberlain · Rating 1 out of 5]

Pretentious. I have no patience for his language. More grating than a five year old bellowing at the top of their lungs, directly into my ear. Maybe that's just me. I will, seemingly, never understand why people have to write this way. We've developed a beautiful language over so many years but that doesn't mean you have to thesarus everything to death. Sometimes verbing nouns gives your message some flavour. That said, after reading through the whole thing... it's relevent, he brings up some interesting points. I will never read it again but I've taken the time to highlight various chunks that actually have something to say underneath all that bravado.

[Justin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Let me just say I thought the last two chapters were the best. Everything else probably could have been condensed into one or two chapters if the writing was more effective.

[Ty · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good analysis, covers a lot but for a book published in 2002, it's a bit puzzling why all the examples are from post-WWII up to the 1970's. The language is also not very accessible to non-academics.