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Understanding Apartheid: South Africa, Settler Colonialism, & Lessons for Palestine

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The Arbitrary Nature of Race Classification in Apartheid South Africa

This chapter highlights the crude and untrained methods used to categorize people into racial groups during apartheid in South Africa, emphasizing the discriminatory nature of race classification. It discusses the use of visual cues such as the 'pencil test' to determine racial classification, shedding light on the arbitrariness of these categorizations.

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