This article offers a response to Warren Goldsteinâs analysis of the racialisation of the âJewish Question.â By analysing the role of Scripture, Afrikaner nationalism and racial science in the production of apartheid, we argue that the insights shared by Goldstein as related to the âJewish Questionâ sparks a fertile reflection on the âColoured Questionâ in South Africa. While the outcomes differed, the correlations are to be found in the processes of othering that preceded and accompanied them. We explore the entangled nature of theology, biology, and politics in the racialisation, and subsequent othering, of the coloured category (where resonances with the Jewish example are to be found). By illustrating the similarities and differences between the âJewish Questionâ and the âColoured Question,â what is offered here is a piece to think with as the process of othering finds new targets in an increasingly polarised world.
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This article offers a response to Warren Goldsteinâs analysis of the racialisation of the âJewish Question.â By analysing the role of Scripture, Afrikaner nationalism and racial science in the production of apartheid, we argue that the insights shared by Goldstein as related to the âJewish Questionâ sparks a fertile reflection on the âColoured Questionâ in South Africa. While the outcomes differed, the correlations are to be found in the processes of othering that preceded and accompanied them. We explore the entangled nature of theology, biology, and politics in the racialisation, and subsequent othering, of the coloured category (where resonances with the Jewish example are to be found). By illustrating the similarities and differences between the âJewish Questionâ and the âColoured Question,â what is offered here is a piece to think with as the process of othering finds new targets in an increasingly polarised world.
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