Apartheid unified all whites as beneficiaries, not just Afrikaners, beyond mere demographic expediency
Evidence
Once firmly in power some four decades later, the Afrikaner ideological project of ethnoracial purity and power logically sought to extend its scope to include all whites. Apartheid was a racial, not simply a narrowly ethnic, project. Whites were elevated as the ruling class, as the overriding beneficiaries of apartheid, not simply ethnic Afrikaners. Nor was this reductively dictated as a matter of the demographic realities, though that proved a prompting consideration. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1491
Categorization
- XREF: Shows privilege-broadening — threatened privilege can extend membership from a narrow ethnic group to the full privileged category, relevant to generalizing the mechanism. — connects to: Apartheid elevated all whites as the ruling class, not just Afrikaners.; South African nation-building cohered through a shared white racial identity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1473; Apartheid’s 1951 white definition shifted from descent to appearance and social acceptance. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 103 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Apartheid elevated all whites as the ruling class, not just Afrikaners.
#corroborates(0.95) - South African nation-building cohered through a shared white racial identity
#corroborates(0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1473 - Racial naturalism joined with religiosity to unify South African whites into a ruling class
#expands(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1435 - Apartheid’s 1951 white definition shifted from descent to appearance and social acceptance.
#expands(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 103