I found this quote whilst researching for an essay on racial identity in South Africa and the United States:
"In conceding that [the] 1922 [Rand Revolt in South Africa] can be seen as a struggle for full citizenship and against the arrogance of capital, it must – of course – be looked at in terms of racial issues. There can be no question that the proposed racial recomposition of the labour force attacked the core of white working-class class identity. Indeed, to comprehend the passions of the white workers in 1922, one must understand, first, that the proposed loss of jobs... was viewed not merely as the use of black workers to create white unemployment... [T]he intention to replace a few thousand whites by black workers was also considered, however hysterically, as a metaphor for something truly apocalyptic: a demand for the white workers to become black, as it were, or perish."
Jeremy Krikler, White Rising (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005) p. 124
