British concessions deliberately consolidated Afrikaner national identity with ruling aspirations

Evidence

In the almost decade-long drive to unifying the south of Africa into the Union of South Africa in 1910, British concessions effectively turned the collective boer into the self-conscious national group of Afrikaner with ruling aspirations. The language of Afrikaans was not only codified but granted more or less equal bureaucratic standing with English; an Afrikaans anthem was later composed (1918), newspapers circulated, a growing literature encouraged. The former boer republic, now the Transvaal, was granted local self-rule in 1906, and its sister republic, the Orange Free Colony, a year later. A peoplehood put firmly in place. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1482

Categorization

• XREF: The intentional construction of a ‘peoplehood’ for political bargaining is a mechanism case for how group identity gets manufactured when it serves a privileged ruling class — relevant to threatened-privilege research. — connects to: British concessions transformed the boers into the self-conscious Afrikaner nation — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1482; Afrikaner identity crystallized from the perceived twin threats of British and black — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1382; British surrender at the Boer War peace ceded native policy to Boers (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• British concessions transformed the boers into the self-conscious Afrikaner nation #corroborates (0.95) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1482
• Afrikaner identity crystallized from the perceived twin threats of British and black #complicates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1382
• British surrender at the Boer War peace ceded native policy to Boers #expands (0.75)
• South African nation-building cohered through a shared white racial identity #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1473
• Threatened privilege drove Dutch colonists into a homogenizing white Afrikaner identity #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1382