Divide-and-rule fragmented the colonized while whiteness unified the colonizers

Evidence

The only significant ethno-hyphenation in emerging South Africa reiterated the long-running family feud between British and boer – English and Afrikaans – heritage. Lingering tensions between cultural languages long in the making. Any discernible non-whiteness, by contrast, suffered segregating differentiation, attempting formally to compel the threat of resisting coherence into the disarticulating artifice of competing ethnoracial groupings nationally conceived. Ethnoracial divide and rule long preceded formalized apartheid, disarticulating blackness into fragmented parts as whiteness in contrast covered over the Anglo-boer split. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1481

Categorization

• XREF: Asymmetric internal structuring — differentiation of subordinates, unification of the privileged — parallels the asymmetric zero-sum/threat dynamic the reader seeks to generalize across axes. — connects to: British colonial rule created ethnoracial divisions where pluralistic communal life existed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 556; Creolization institutionalized divide-and-rule that split the colonized from each other. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3200; Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial unity welded divergent European settler groups into common whiteness #expands (0.90)
• Colonial exclusion sustained empire by dividing colonizers against themselves #contradicts (0.85) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 228
• Colonial color hierarchies assigned privilege by proximity to European whiteness #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3223
• Creolization institutionalized divide-and-rule that split the colonized from each other. #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3200
• Mastery of the colonizer’s language confers honorary whiteness on the colonized #expands (0.75)
• Colonial exclusion categories sedimented into the national identity of the colonized #expands (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 463
• Colonial settings elevated the European proletariat into whiteness #exemplifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 93
• Colonial liberal assimilation differed fundamentally from later racialized exclusion #complicates (0.70) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 63