Racial separatism on the left reproduced apartheid’s political logic

Evidence

Yet, racial separatism was simultaneously deeply problematic, particularly for whites on the left, because it reproduced the political and intellectual logic of apartheid: “in a racially sensitive country like ours, provision for racially exclusive bodies tends to widen the gap that already exists between races …”(p. 129). — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 582

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapter on silence-as-absence vs the impossibility of escaping structural conditions, and to ADDENDUM article on sacrifice/stabilizers of stratified societies. — connects to: Anti-apartheid rhetoric channeled metropolitan antiracist energies — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 104