Faced with the emergence and reemergence of internal conflict, state elites in South Africa and the United States found the crutch of exclusion was too large if a benefit to ignore. ... Along with the social construction of race as an tool to gain and maintain power, race was also constructed as an economic apparatus to create a labour force that was virtually limitless and easily replenished as many black were eager to take a job wherever available as a means to support their families. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate