Small threatened minority presence favors assimilation rather than segregationist rule

Evidence

The Cape was characterized by a far larger mixed race population and a much smaller African demographic presence than boer and British found as they moved north. Under British rule at least in and around Cape Town, as a consequence, amalgamationism as demographic horizon was joined to assimilationism as political and cultural mandate. Racial uplift of those deemed not white was to be achieved through intercourse, cultural as much as demographic (though in the latter regard still overwhelmingly between white men and women of color). The British Western Cape was not so unlike Latin America. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1433

Categorization

• SHARE: For someone working on white-Latino demographic dynamics: the Cape/boer-Natal contrast is a clean natural experiment on population ratio flipping assimilation vs. segregation.
• XREF: connects to: Intense polarization persists over a policy affecting only a small minority; Small residential minority increases greatly amplify into public school resegregation — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 588

Broader Connections

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