Incoherent racial legislation required escalating violence to enforce

Evidence

If racial classification of “Whites,” “Coloureds,” and “Africans” in the legislation was definitively incoherent and circular, residential segregation was brutally executed, and resistance was violently suppressed. The more incoherent the legislation, the more repressive the violence it took to enforce. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1543

The more incoherent the legislation, the more repressive the violence it took to enforce. Mixed residential, commercial, and recreational space was brutally purged, the prime locations reserved exclusively to white ownership; homelands were established as repositories of black poverty and desperately cheap migrant labor for mines and manufacturing; and any political resistance to these state regimes was more or less immediately suppressed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1543

Categorization

• XREF: Laws whose incoherence forces violent enforcement connects to how threatened groups build unstable dominance that must be shored up by repression.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1543