State-imposed categories become available identity bases for subsequent political entrepreneurs.

Evidence

Separatist policies finally made government-defined African identities available as bases of political mobilization. “As the South African state in 1990 began to shift away from formal racial exclusion and segregation, toward ‘non-racial’ democracy,” notes Anthony Marx, “racial identity and mobilization has lost some of its salience. In its place, political entrepreneurs have increasingly relied on ‘tribal’ or ‘ethnic’ identities as the basis of mobilization, as indicated by Zulu nationalism and ‘coloured’ fears of African domination under the ANC” (Marx 1995, 169). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 574

Categorization

• XREF: Strongly echoes the reader’s South Asia question: whether constitutional recognition of identity-groups (analogous to Apartheid categories) similarly outlives the regime that created them and becomes the raw material for ‘tribal’ mobilization. — connects to: States build durable categories that tie unequal rights to separated groups. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 553; Racial categories lodge in bodies and re-emerge as political positions. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 993; Identity is transformed by political action, not a precondition of it (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial categories lodge in bodies and re-emerge as political positions. #expands (0.78) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 993
• A state’s own inclusionary categories become the vehicles of its dissolution #qualifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1255
• Identity is transformed by political action, not a precondition of it #corroborates (0.75)