Racial separation persists through blame for mismanagement where race-based justifications are now prohibited.
Evidence
This participant also produces racial separation, black South Africans as ‘they’ and South Africa as ‘their’ country. She argues that she feels separated from black South Africans, not because ‘they are black’, but because they are ‘fucking up’ the country. These participants are arguing for the same racial separation and white supremacy inherent in apartheid discourse; however, in a post-apartheid South Africa they cannot do so based on race. Instead, they are basing their arguments for separation on the actions of black South Africans and apparent evidence of mismanagement and decay. Therefore, although they give the appearance of rejecting apartheid, they are fully engaged in recycling apartheid discourse and ideology. — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 172
Categorization
- XREF: Directly speaks to the reader’s stated purpose: whether apartheid-era grievance/identity narratives persist decoupled from power — this shows they transfer, re-encoded as anti-blackness-through-mismanagement. — connects to: Racism persists covertly after formal prohibitions end — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1506; Racial separation persists by being re-framed in non-racial terms — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 170; Contemporary racism often operates indirectly rather than through overt bigotry. — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims: Psychometric…, 47 (+1 more)
- SEED: Essay angle: how ideologies survive their legal abolition by re-encoding their casuistry in new, legal vocabularies — a mechanism of ideological continuity.
Broader Connections
- Racial separation persists by being re-framed in non-racial terms
#corroborates(0.95) — Cornel Verwey and Michael Quayle, Whiteness, racism, and Afrikaner…, 170 - Racism persists covertly after formal prohibitions end
#corroborates(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1506 - Racism persists without explicit racial language, operating through denial and apology
#corroborates(0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1867 - Contemporary racism often operates indirectly rather than through overt bigotry.
#corroborates(0.80) — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 47