Sacralized racial orders require sustained violence to maintain their messianic community.

Evidence

The sacralizing of race could resort ultimately only to violence to sustain the messianic community. Messianic communities, qua messianic, are always in the making, always in process of becoming. That process of becoming includes converting the qualified non-believing to its vision, and keeping the non-belonging, the non-qualifying, at bay. Race both naturalized the boundaries of membership and licensed the rules of maintenance. The secularizing of race on and in terms of which the New South Africa was to be founded, by contrast, had to reconfigure the sense of community, fashioning an expansive and incorporative national unity. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1585 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The missionary modality served well a political economy of the Protestant ethic and the social self-discipline of labor, contribution, and charity. The messianic, by contrast, mirrored the spirit of group rule and racially driven domination. The Anglicans turned out to represent false promise. Intent on self-sustenance and self-direction, the boers would manufacture the messianic in the spirit of segregation. The second coming would later be codified as apartheid. The differences between a liberalizing historicism and a more strident rationalizing scientistic racial naturalism, in the wider scheme of things, assumed the form of a family squabble over the legacy of the racial estate. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1436 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sacralized racial community requires violence because messianic community is always being remade — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1585; Race operates as sacred violence purchasing order through scapegoats — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1349; Challenged racial absolutism escalates violence rather than moderating it (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Sacralized racial community requires violence because messianic community is always being remade #corroborates (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1585
• Missionary and messianic modes of rule produced opposite racial regimes #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1436