The apartheid of race has been subsumed into an apartheid of class

Evidence

But beneath the giddy exuberance of this ethos, of this released spirit and talking in many tongues harkening back to a much earlier time, lurks the legacy of deeper separations, residentially, educationally, commercially, and medically. These divides are reproduced so readily also in informal spheres and settings through implicit and sometimes explicit appeal to racial preference schemes or racially charged political agendas. Race has lost its religious authority, its sacralized status, to be sure, but freeing racism at once of its institutional constraints. The apartheid of race has been replaced by – better yet, subsumed into – a spiraling apartheid of class, to riff on Patrick Bond’s terms. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1592

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reading list on racial capitalism and neoliberal disposability; connects to how racial hierarchy persists post-civil-rights in the U.S. under new class structures. — connects to: Anti-apartheid scholars displaced race with class precisely because race was so pervasive. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 577
• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that desacralizing race simultaneously freed racism of institutional constraints is a dense, layered reversal worth sitting with.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1592