How racial inclusion undermines solidarities: on race, class, immigration and political mobilization

In Fractured Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa After Racial Inclusion, Marcel Paret explains why South Africa’s passive revolution resulted in a specific form of localized political mobilization focused on political parties and resource access, and rarely resulting in broad solidarities or large-scale social change. In this essay, I consider Paret’s analysis of fractured militancy in the wake of formal racial inclusion in South Africa and its implications for theorizing the intersection of race and class; racial status; racial solidarities and conflicts; and political mobilization in South Africa and the U.S.