What do you think about this author's critique of racism?

This question is inspired by Facade’s question

I recently read a chapter out of a book titled: White nation: Fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society

I’d actually prefer you read pages 27–47 (or however many you want from page 27 onwards) here

But I wrote a paper on these pages and can give you the gist of it: “Ghassan Hage discusses the relationship between an idea of nationalism, an imagined community and racism in his book “White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society”. Hage determines that racial violence has spatial and territorial dimension to it. He also argues that a “[although] such practices are informed by racist modes of classification, they are better off conceived as nationalist practices” (28). The process in which an imagined community is visualized is also described by Hage: “First an image of national space [is assumed]; secondly, an image of the nationalist himself or herself as master of this national space and, thirdly an image of the ‘ethnic/racial other’ as a mere object within this space” (28). ”

So what do you think? Can racist practices be seen as nationalist practices?