Abstract
The racial state is one that is intricately associated with the origins, development and apparent permanence of particularly, modern, western nation states. The racial state stipulates a specific racial hierarchy and hegemony which further determines how racial conflict and accommodation will be accomplished between specific racial groups, ideas, and institutions within the society. The president, as the chief executive officer, is often the official face and voice of the racial state. This chapter will investigate how the President of the United States has served in this capacity.
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Citizenship clearly a part of the nation building process was and is a major device by which exclusionism operates. We shall explore this in greater detail in the next section. This category also demonstrates the grey areas between the categories and the blinding of historical periods.
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Excerpted from “Indian Resistance and Removal” by the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Accessed on line at URL: http://www.semtribe.com/History/IndianRemoval.aspx.
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Excerpted from The Official Web Page of the United Farm Workers of America. http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=cc_his_research&b_no=10482.
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Coates, R.D. (2018). The Racial State. In: Batur, P., Feagin, J. (eds) Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76757-4_4
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