Apartheid’s architects descended from early Dutch-Khoi mixed marriages

Evidence

Apartheid, then, spans a period of over 40 years - a history shaped in complex ways by the shifting interactions of long-standing ideological principles and political imperatives, ad hoc strategies and decisions of the political moment, the pressures of popular resistance, the opportunities and constraints created by the global economy, the unintended consequences of existing policies, together with the uneven capacities of an increasingly ambitious state. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 553 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The architects of apartheid descended from the very racial mixing they later repressed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1318; Architects of apartheid themselves descended from the mixed-race unions they suppressed — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1321; The Dutch national hero initiated the settlement that led to apartheid — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 836 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Apartheid’s forty-year history emerged from contingency rather than a master plan #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 553