Post-apartheid ‘African’ became a self-selected category tied to redress policy

Evidence

However, with the fall of apartheid, ‘African’ is now a self-selected racial classification essential to government policies such as employment equity. Therefore the rhetorical struggle over who can lay claim to being ‘African’ has important consequences for defining who belongs, who deserves access to resources, and the fairness of structural redress such as 19. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 33

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: South African racial categories shifted with expediency despite extreme racism — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 564; The apartheid state engineered categories for groups that had no prior bounded identity. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 557

Broader Connections

• South African racial categories shifted with expediency despite extreme racism #expands (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 564
• The apartheid state engineered categories for groups that had no prior bounded identity. #corroborates (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 557