Race-focused research on apartheid is recent and still early-stage

Evidence

Research which takes race as its immediate and explicit focus is a relatively recent feature in the apartheid literature, which means that there are many new research areas inviting more extensive study. For example, we need to know much more about the ways in which racial identities were forged (including the social meanings of whiteness); how changing racial discourses under apartheid operated as modes of power/knowledge; the differences between what James Scott would call “public” as compared to “hidden transcripts” (Scott, 1990) of race within social movements committed to an ideology of nonracialism. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 595

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Race scholarship on apartheid grew mainly after the regime’s defeat — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 596; Little research has probed the social meanings of race under apartheid — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 548; Race became a researched subject mainly after apartheid fell (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Race became a researched subject mainly after apartheid fell #corroborates (0.95)
• Little research has probed the social meanings of race under apartheid #corroborates (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 548
• Apartheid historiography sidestepped the theoretical question of what race actually is #expands (0.85)
• South African academia neglected the study of race despite its omnipresence #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 547
• The canonical race-class debate on apartheid actually diverted attention away from race #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 556
• Whiteness as a racial identity under apartheid remains understudied #exemplifies (0.80)
• Apartheid shaped not only what scholars studied but how they studied it #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 549
• Race studies expanded rapidly across many disciplines in recent decades #contradicts (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 91
• Liberal apartheid scholars reduced race to a tool of Afrikaner ethnic factionalism #expands (0.80)