The Racial State Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The State of Race Theory	1
1	States of Racial Distinction	14
	Cities and States	16
	Hybridity and Homogeneity	24
2	The Time of Racial States	36
	States of Nature and Historical States	39
	The Racial Obsession of Modernity	49
3	The State of Liberalism's Limits	57
	Shifting Grounds	57
	Carlyle's Critical Caricature	59
	Mill's Racial Rule	63
4	Racial Rule	74
	Naturalism and Historicism	74
	Amalgamation and Assimilation	80
	Naturalizing Order, Historicizing Governance	85
	Racial Subjection, Ambivalent Rule	88
5	Racial States	98
	States of Racial Rule, States of Racial Being	98
	Defining States, Refining States	101
	Racial Subjects, Racial Selves	104
	Racial Governmentalities	109
	Racial States and Racist States	112
	Racial Penetration, Racial Routinization	115
	Racial Assertion and the Nation-State	118
	Laying Down Racial Law	122
	States of Racial Violence	129
	A Racial World Order	132
6	Legislating Race	138
	Law's Order	139
	Laws of Racial Rule	141
	Racial Restrictions	148
	Racial Sovereignty	154
7	States of Whiteness	160
	Segregating States	164
	Cultivating Whiteness	171
	State Stocktaking	188
8	Raceless States	200
	Centralizing State Racelessness	203
	Styles of State Racelessness	210
	Conditions and Codes of Racelessness	221
	Racelessness as Civic Religion	229
	Raceless Worlds	234
9	Conclusion: Stating the Difference	239
	Posing the Question of Post-racial States	239
	Race and State Personality	244
	The Race to State Homogeneity	248
	Counter-racial Questions	254
	Traceless Citizenships	263
	Bibliography	278
	Index	304