Urban Cape produced racial class distinctions independent of frontier dynamics.

Evidence

This was not, or not only or simply, a frontier phenomenon. Kaapstadt was emerging as a regional city, a trading place in its own right and strategic port at the crossroads of global sea-going circulation. And yet it produced its own class distinctions, partly racially defined, between Company people and independent burghers, city men and boers, between the propertied and those serving the landed, between free blacks and slaves, the elevated and the diminished, white, mixed, Malay, Hindu, black, and ultimately also the British, but in addition and relatedly between Christians and pagans. Jews in significant numbers came later, at the close of the nineteenth and into the twentieth centuries. Abundant heterogeneity, under managed care of increasingly racially inscribed and determining definition. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1385

Categorization

• XREF: Shows racial stratification is not a frontier phenomenon — relevant to whether the mechanism generalizes across settings and identity axes. — connects to: Racial historicism held sway in colonial cities while naturalism dominated the frontier — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1414

Broader Connections

• Racial historicism held sway in colonial cities while naturalism dominated the frontier #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1414