Threatened privilege, not disadvantage, can also trigger politicized collective identity

Evidence

This is not to say that high-status or privileged groups cannot develop a politicized collective identity. Extreme-right Whites in South Africa are a case in point. As for all groups, the first step to politicized collective identity is awareness of shared grievances, which, for high-status groups, most likely means awareness that their status and the associated privileges are threatened. For high-status groups, the reappraisal of relative status and associated beliefs (including legitimizing myths) should therefore be part and parcel of this politicizing step. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4441

Categorization

• QUESTION: The South African apartheid example is compressed — how exactly did threatened white privilege translate into a politicized identity? Worth chasing the specifics.
• XREF: Connects to the general literature on reactionary politics and status threat, e.g. work on perceived group status decline driving right-wing mobilization. — connects to: Phallic privilege is contingent on situation, not anatomically destined — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 128; Anticipatory status threat directly shifts reported political identity toward conservatism. — Maureen A. Craig and Jennifer A. Richeson, On the Precipice of a…, 69; Identity’s political meaning derives from domination structures, not attachments themselves — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 2145 (+3 more)