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.