The apartheid-idea premised racialization of laws on white supremacy.

Evidence

The National Party came to power in South Africa in 1948, with the promise of restoring “order” to South African society under the auspices of die apartheidgedagte (the apartheid-idea) - an affirmation of the principle of white supremacy; as the basis for a more thorough-going racialization of the country’s laws and institutions than had previously existed. At a time when other African colonial societies were encountering the first shock waves of decolonization, white South Africans voted in a government which promised to contain the threat of black militancy, heighten the physical, social, and cultural distance between races, and preserve the principle of racial purity. In 1948, the National Party’s margin of victory was slight; indeed, it was only in 1961 that the party secured a majority of election votes. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 552

Categorization

• DEFINE: Concrete anchor for the term racialization — racialization of institutions occurs under an explicit ideological banner (apartheidgedagte) as distinct from more diffuse US racial formation.
• XREF: connects to: Apartheid naturalized race rhetorically while shifting racial categories to serve white self-interest. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1589; Apartheid absolutized sovereign power through racial depersonalization and ascription. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1629; White supremacy operates as an idea undergirding Western social structure — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1151 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Apartheid naturalized race rhetorically while shifting racial categories to serve white self-interest. #expands (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1589
• Apartheid grew out of whites’ racialized fear of contamination and extinction #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1505
• White supremacy operates as an idea undergirding Western social structure #expands (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1151
• Embedded race thinking makes suspension of rights look like law #expands (0.80)
• Apartheid fused racial hierarchy with a fascist aesthetic of ordination #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1552
• Apartheid’s township and homeland system was spatial planning engineered for racial control. #expands (0.80) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 91
• Apartheid absolutized sovereign power through racial depersonalization and ascription. #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1629
• Apartheid’s ideology rested on God-ordained separate-but-equal racial development #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1507
• Totalitarian theory derived authority from racial right rather than universal law #expands (0.78) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 425
• Imported European racial views rationalized white control at the Cape #expands (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1353
• Law creates racial categories to enable plunder and profit. #expands (0.75)