Urbanization and wars hardened racial stereotypes into claims of inherent incapacity

Evidence

The immediate impact of such commitments was to temper if not to terminate the earlier commitment to historicizing assimilationism. The refashioned sense of black bestiality, inherent incapacity, slothfulness, and threat, reinforced by rapidly rising black urbanization and a long series of vicious and violent wars in Natal, prompted a deep-seated stereotypical skepticism about ability, responsibility, and reliability, if not an unqualified commitment to inherent incapacity. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1467

Categorization

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