The rainbow nation conception treats identity as relationally configured, not fixed.

Evidence

The rainbow nation, by contrast, takes social identities and selves to be figured relationally. They are worked out in the world, in the time social subjects actually inhabit, configured in intercourse across every sphere, in the relational interactions that constitute sociality on a daily basis – in language and learning, culture and commerce, play and politics, residentially and recreationally, socially and sexually. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1589

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrast between apartheid’s absolutized/naturalized race and the rainbow nation’s relational, processual sociality.