Cape racial governance arrived with Enlightenment and British rule, not Dutch

Evidence

State policy and regulation – its governing rationality – were not (yet) principally fashioned by, through, and in terms of race. All that would come, ironically, with the Enlightenment and later with the British takeover of Cape governance. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1324

Categorization

• XREF: Reverses the common narrative locating apartheid’s roots in early Dutch Calvinism; echoes the chapter’s ‘racial Southafricanization’ framing.