Race achieved maximum structural salience in apartheid South Africa compared to other societies.

Evidence

Perhaps the one thing everyone knows about apartheid in South Africa is the ubiquity of race within that system: all social, political, economic, and cultural processes and experiences were racialized. … As Pierre van den Berghe put it in 1967:“of all contemporary multiracial societies. South Africa is the most complexly and rigidly stratified on the basis of race, the one in which race has greatest salience vis a vis other structural principles” (Van den Berghe, 1969:319). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 546

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: South Africa couples industrial capitalism with race as an articulating principle of social structure.; Anti-apartheid scholars displaced race with class precisely because race was so pervasive. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 577; Apartheid functioned as political principle as much as economic rationalization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1529

Broader Connections

• South Africa couples industrial capitalism with race as an articulating principle of social structure. #corroborates (0.90)
• Anti-apartheid scholars displaced race with class precisely because race was so pervasive. #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 577
• Apartheid functioned as political principle as much as economic rationalization. #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1529