Shift from welfare paternalism to racial modernism produced a new militant generation

Evidence

Bozzoli insists on the indigenous origins of Alexandra’s shift to militancy, and portrays the ANC as seeking to catch up with and co-opt township militancy rather than to organize it. She sees the state’s shift from township “welfare paternalism” to “racial modernism” during the 1960s and 1970s as having shaped a new militant generation in Alexandra and elsewhere. … The “Comrade Generation,” in her account, led the risings that became more frequent and lethal during the mid-1980s. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 607

Categorization

• QUESTION: Bozzoli’s claim that the ANC was catching up with, not organizing, township militancy inverts the usual top-down narrative of revolutionary parties — is this specific to the ANC or a general pattern of parties trailing street movements?
• XREF: connects to: Escalating resistance met with legalized repression entrenches rather than contains mobilization. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 577; Dominant groups switch from paternalism to reason-based ideology when segregation replaces personal control; Dominant-group stereotypes shift from categorical to probabilistic as ideology moves from paternalism to individualism — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 675

Broader Connections

• Dominant groups switch from paternalism to reason-based ideology when segregation replaces personal control #corroborates (0.80)
• Dominant-group stereotypes shift from categorical to probabilistic as ideology moves from paternalism to individualism #corroborates (0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 675