Rising black urbanization and wars reversed assimilationist commitment

Evidence

The immediate impact of such commitments was to temper if not to terminate the earlier commitment to historicizing assimilationism. The refashioned sense of black bestiality, inherent incapacity, slothfulness, and threat, reinforced by rapidly rising black urbanization and a long series of vicious and violent wars in Natal, prompted a deep-seated stereotypical skepticism about ability, responsibility, and reliability, if not an unqualified commitment to inherent incapacity. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1467

Categorization

• XREF: Black urbanization as a trigger for white status threat and stereotypical retrenchment is the central anticipatory-status-threat mechanism the reader is testing — here operating through group demographic pressure. — connects to: Urbanization and wars hardened racial stereotypes into claims of inherent incapacity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1467; As black urbanization grew so did intra-city residential segregation; Post-slavery systems transformed rather than ended the oppression of black Americans — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 430 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Urbanization and wars hardened racial stereotypes into claims of inherent incapacity #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1467
• As black urbanization grew so did intra-city residential segregation #expands (0.75)
• Post-slavery systems transformed rather than ended the oppression of black Americans #complicates (0.70) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 430