Historicist rule imposed through education while naturalism used brutal force

Evidence

In their colonial applications, historicism or progressivism was to naturalism as the velvet glove was to the iron fist. The former was inclined to be soft and smooth, proceeding through the imposition of education and ideology, subtle coercion and calculating manipulation, but bristling to the critical touch. The latter tended to be vicious and vindictive, bald in design and ends, cruel and forcefully commanding in its means, sometimes driven to transgress genocidal limits, and tolerating no opposition. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 49

Categorization

• XREF: The velvet-glove/iron-fist duality echoes the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s framework of hard and soft social control, and Gramsci’s coercion/hegemony distinction.

Related

• State form only loosely correlates with style of racial rule (similarity 0.78)
• Racial regimes differ in whether coercion is overt or ideological. (similarity 0.78)