South African racial structure is preserved by distinctive economic mechanisms, not abolished by capitalism

Evidence

Taking as the central feature of his analysis this quite atypical “central labour institution,” Rex is able to delineate more precisely the specific economic mechanisms which have served to “incorporate” the African working class into the capitalist system in ways which preserve rather than liquidate its segmentary racial character. The racial structure of the South African social formation is, thereby, given concrete economic conditions of existence—the link being traceable, precisely, through its “peculiarity,” its deviation from the “classical” capitalist path. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 590

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s ongoing project on Stuart Hall and economic thought — Rex’s ‘peculiar institutions’ argument parallels later debates about racial capitalism (Cedric Robinson, Walter Rodney). — connects to: South Africa’s post-Union state institutionalized white interest as its prime structural purpose — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1489
• SEED: An essay angle: how economists since Marx have treated ‘deviant’ cases like South Africa as laboratories for theorizing racial capitalism outside the classical European path.