Apartheid’s 1960s boom plus repression empirically refuted liberal modernization theory

Evidence

From this point on an increasingly cohesive and assertive political theology of race came to structure social belief, polity, economy, and law, including the supply of labor, education, residential space, and voting rights. Overall dispositions were still riven by tensions between racial naturalism and historicism, messianism and the secularized mentality of a missionary moralism. But the way was opened up to the emergent march, the culmination of a century-long trek, if not quite straightforwardly or inevitably, to the apartheid state. Far from anomaly, far from oddity, the apartheid state had roots deep in the modernizing history of South Africa, if not in Europe’s colonial extension (of) itself. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1485 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Apartheid’s prosperity during repression discredited the liberal contradiction thesis — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 563; Apartheid grew out of South Africa’s modernization, not as an oddity.; High growth alongside apartheid repression disproved the liberal contradiction thesis (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• High growth alongside apartheid repression disproved the liberal contradiction thesis #expands (1.00)
• Apartheid emerged from South Africa’s modernizing history, not an anomaly #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1485