This document recaps the key themes from weeks 1-3 of a course on the racial state. Week 1 established that racism is modern, not natural or pathological. Week 2 explained that race functions like a language and racialization is a process involving naturalization and dehumanization. Week 3 discussed how modern states use race to rule and its connection to capitalism, viewing race as a system of management and control that constructs racial subjects through naturalism and historicism. The document concludes by having students write down one thing they learned and one thing they are still puzzled by.

1. Recap
The Racial State - Week 4
Dr Alana Lentin a.lentin@uws.edu.au

2. Week 1: Main themes
Racism is not
natural
Racism is modern
Racism is not
pathological

3. Week 2: Main themes
Race works like a
language
Racialistion is a
process
The lived-experience
of racialisation:
naturalisation
dehumanisation

4. Week 3: Main themes
Modern states need race
to rule
Racism and capitalism
Racial subjects:
naturalism and
historicism
Race as a system of
management and
control

5. I have
learned/I am
puzzled by
In groups write down one
thing you have learned &
one thing you are still
confused about

6. I Can Fix It: Racism