The Boer War peace settlement handed native policy over to white supremacists

Evidence

“Much of the hesitant and evasive conduct of British statesmanship in the generation before the Boer War could be attributed to the indecision of the British Government between its obligation to the natives and its obligation to the white communities… Now, however, the Boer War compelled a decision on native policy. In the terms of the peace the British Government promised that no attempt would be made to alter the political status of the natives before self-government had been granted to the ex-Republics. In that epochal decision the British Government receded from its humanitarian position and enabled the Boer leaders to win a signal victory in the peace negotiations which marked their military defeat. Great Britain abandoned the effort to exercise a control over the vital relations between white and black. Downing Street had surrendered to the frontiers” (Kiewiet, op. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2338

Categorization

• XREF: The British abandonment of native policy to Boer rule parallels the pattern Arendt traces of metropolitan states delegating racial domination to settler frontiers — key mechanism in the racialism/supremacy theme that Islamophobia readings build on.
• SEED: Angle: how a liberal metropole rationalized ceding racial jurisdiction to a defeated colony — a case study in the delegation of racial violence as political expedience.