Apartheid-era cataclysmic racial-threat narratives survived the democratic transition nearly intact.

Evidence

A parallel (and more potent) strategy for justifying racial separation was by reproducing apartheid discourses of racial threat. Under apartheid rule, many of the regime’s most oppressive measures were justified by cataclysmic discourses, such as referring to blacks as Die Swart Gevaar (‘The Black Threat’) or describing the strategy of the anti-apartheid resistance movement as ‘the total onslaught’. These discourses of racial threat have clearly survived the transition to democracy almost intact amongst these participants: 83. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 173

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the terms ‘Die Swart Gevaar’ and ‘the total onslaught’ as apartheid’s cataclysmic justificatory discourse.
• XREF: Responds to the reader’s core question about whether identity circuits dissolve, transfer, or persist decoupled from power — this is evidence of persistence. — connects to: Displaced Afrikaner racism survives as a private in-group discourse. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 130

Broader Connections

• Displaced Afrikaner racism survives as a private in-group discourse. #expands (0.85) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 130