Apartheid fused racial hierarchy with a fascist aesthetic of ordination

Evidence

In sacralizing race, apartheid extended new definition to nineteenthcentury high colonialism (when Disraeli could declare all to be race), assuming at the same time especially aesthetic elements of fascist ideological representation (volkisch factors and godly ordination, youth brigades, the social role of the uniform, the appeal of the Volkswagen and the German Shepherd, the construction of huge granite grey monumental blocks of buildings). … Race defined all, was everywhere present. Black and white lives intersected almost ubiquitously – in the home (overwhelmingly but not only of whites), at the workplace, in public space, even recreational sites, and to some degree in educational institutions. But those intersecting relations were not just deeply managed; they were as thoroughly ordered on hierarchical racial planes in their conceptual and organizational structure as they were behaviorally policed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1552

Categorization

• XREF: The fascist aesthetic elements (uniforms, godly ordination, monumental blocks, youth brigades) connect to the reading on immodesty moral panics and dress-as-identity; also parallels discussions of Nazi visual ideology in the soundscape silence reading on sacralized state power. — connects to: The apartheid-idea premised racialization of laws on white supremacy. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 552
• DEFINE: Defines ‘sacralizing race’ — the process by which racial hierarchy became a divinely-ordered, aestheticized, totalizing frame.