Post-apartheid South Africa is a laboratory for racial transition

Evidence

But beneath the giddy exuberance of this ethos, of this released spirit and talking in many tongues harkening back to a much earlier time, lurks the legacy of deeper separations, residentially, educationally, commercially, and medically. These divides are reproduced so readily also in informal spheres and settings through implicit and sometimes explicit appeal to racial preference schemes or racially charged political agendas. Race has lost its religious authority, its sacralized status, to be sure, but freeing racism at once of its institutional constraints. The apartheid of race has been replaced by – better yet, subsumed into – a spiraling apartheid of class, to riff on Patrick Bond’s terms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1592 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-apartheid South Africa publicly integrates race more than the US does; South Africa’s post-apartheid transition aimed to secularize race outright — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1587; The apartheid of race has been subsumed into an apartheid of class — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1592

Broader Connections

• The apartheid of race has been subsumed into an apartheid of class #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1592