Anticipatory status threat against Indian businessmen, not just Africans, drove apartheid’s formative legislation.

Evidence

In 1946, then-prime minister Smuts introduced legislation limiting Asian residence and business enterprise to restricted areas and ending all property purchases between Asians and whites. The pieces that would become apartheid were already discretely in formation if not firmly in place by the time its vocal and unifying orchestrators would launch themselves to political power in 1948. South Africa lunged to resurrect and redirect racial domination in a formal political system just as decolonizing movements were beginning to bear fruit. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1500

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences threatened-privilege mobilization generalizing beyond the white-black axis to whites-against-Asians, supporting the reader’s cross-axis replication test. — connects to: Anticipatory threats of dissolution and extinction drove apartheid’s creation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1505; Apartheid grew out of whites’ racialized fear of contamination and extinction — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1505

Broader Connections

• Anticipatory threats of dissolution and extinction drove apartheid’s creation #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1505
• Apartheid grew out of whites’ racialized fear of contamination and extinction #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1505