Neoliberal decolonisation policy aimed to keep whites in former colonies as welcome partners.

Evidence

At the 1957 meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society, the Stanford agricultural economist Karl Brandt drew on the myth of the market as a catallaxy that transforms enemies into friends to lay out a neoliberal approach to decolonisation. The problem for an ‘enlightened liberalism’, he argued, was not ‘how to rid the colonial areas of the white people’; rather, it was ‘how to create, as soon as possible, conditions in the colonial areas under which the white people not only can stay but where more of them can enter the areas as welcome partners and friends’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 232

Categorization

• SHARE: Send to anyone working on settler-colonial studies or the history of development economics — the Brandt 1957 quote is a sharp primary source.
• SEED: Article angle on the ‘welcome partners and friends’ framing: how the free-trade ideal rehabilitated the white presence in colonies by redesignating it as voluntary private investment.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism functioned as a defense against perceived erosion of white privilege — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1764; White creole privilege survived decolonization through hybridity discourse rather than open racism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3233; Postcolonial migration provoked new racial management modes under neoliberalism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1780 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism functioned as a defense against perceived erosion of white privilege #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1764
• White creole privilege survived decolonization through hybridity discourse rather than open racism #qualifies (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3233
• Postcolonial migration provoked new racial management modes under neoliberalism #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1780