Apartheid scholarship flourished directly in response to state oppression

Evidence

As Norman Etherington points out, the “efflorescence of scholarship” on South Africa from the 1960s to the 1980s was directly related to the intensification of apartheid oppression: “in the years between the tragedy of Sharpeville and Mandela’s triumphant emergence from prison, historians of many different tendencies saw their research as a useful political tool in the fight against injustice” (Etherington, 1996:10) Academic modes of analysis have therefore been closely aligned with the politics and discourses of opposition to apartheid. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 576

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-apartheid scholars displaced race with class precisely because race was so pervasive. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 577