British race-relations thought drew on South Africa and the colonial empire

Evidence

There was very little teaching of sociology in Britain until the 1950s, so there were few scholars to reflect on the arguments of Park and Cox. British ideas about racial relations derived substantially from South Africa and from experience in the colonial empire. When an Institute of Race Relations was established in London in 1958, the expression was taken to denote relations between physically distinguishable populations, but the prime focus was still on the different positions of groups rather than the relations between persons. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 661

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how imperial administrative knowledge production shaped later UK sociology and policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 661