Structural redress was abandoned in favor of a choice framework that protects privilege

Evidence

Post-apartheid sociality, accordingly, is about channeled choice, undertaking (as Neil Lazarus puts it) to reconstitute both the familiality of South Africa, the national family, and public subjectivities in perhaps expanded but hardly expansive terms. It ascribes to choice the pretense of refashioning membership without resentment, reconciliation without responsibility, redress without sacrifice, without giving up privilege or at least economic power. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1596

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Neoliberal restructuring systematically further privileges the already privileged — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1742; Dominant groups defend privilege through bounded ideological justifications

Broader Connections