Apartheid shaped not only what scholars studied but how they studied it

Evidence

Academic communities (largely white) have been loath to confront the sense in which apartheid was not only the object of study but, in some uncomfortable respects, also the medium of it. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 549

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader sociology of knowledge tradition - the idea that the medium of intellectual production carries its own politics echoes work on epistemic colonialism and standpoint theory. — connects to: Neoliberalism commodities anti-apartheid history emptied of memory — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1611; Race-focused research on apartheid is recent and still early-stage — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 595