Apartheid grew out of South Africa’s modernization, not as an oddity.

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

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: Apartheid emerged from South Africa’s modernizing history, not an anomaly — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1485; Apartheid South Africa was a variant capitalist formation, not pre-capitalist — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 624; South African racial structure is preserved by distinctive economic mechanisms, not abolished by capitalism — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 590 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Apartheid emerged from South Africa’s modernizing history, not an anomaly #expands (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1485
• Apartheid’s forty-year history emerged from contingency rather than a master plan #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 553