Colonial encounter simultaneously produced urban modernity, robust mixture, and ruled racial division
Evidence
From the earliest moments of encounter and unequal exchange, the colonial prehistory of South Africa introduced effects with more or less permanent and interacting impacts: modern urban-making and the politics of its contestation, its remaking according to a blueprint of ruled division; the knotted, contested, often tragic politics of more or less robust mixture, ethnoracially, miscegenationally, socio-culturally; and the threatening political economy of racial division, separation, and segregation, with their invariably, even inevitably, tragic effects. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1307
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Contemporary neoliberal urban divides are modern expressions of colonial extraction — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 9; Colonialism advanced state formation by racially ordering the colonized exterior — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 1530; Today’s urban-regional divides echo older colonial extraction patterns.
Broader Connections
- Contemporary neoliberal urban divides are modern expressions of colonial extraction
#expands(0.85) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 9 - Colonialism advanced state formation by racially ordering the colonized exterior
#qualifies(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 1530 - Today’s urban-regional divides echo older colonial extraction patterns.
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