Presents a study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. This book explores how the cultivation of knowledge served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood, and also addresses major themes in both South African and comparative imperial historiography.
Presents a study of the relationship of knowledge to national identity formation in modern South Africa. This book explores how the cultivation of kno...
As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its legacy in South African history will be indelible. this book is designed to introduce students to a range of interpretations of one of South Africa's central social characteristics: racial segregation. It: - brings together eleven articles which span the whole history of segregation from its origins to its final collapse - reviews the new historiography of segregation and the wide variety of intellectual traditions on which it is based ...
As South Africa moves towards majority rule, and blacks begin to exercise direct political power, apartheid becomes a thing of the past - but its lega...
This is the first full-length study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa. Ranging broadly across disciplines in the social sciences, sciences and humanities, it charts the rise of scientific racism during the late nineteenth century and the subsequent decline of biological determinism from the mid-twentieth century, and considers the complex relationship between theories of essential racial difference and the political rise of segregation and apartheid.
This is the first full-length study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa. Ranging broadly across disciplines in...
This is the first full-length study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa. Ranging broadly across disciplines in the social sciences, sciences and humanities, it charts the rise of scientific racism during the late nineteenth century and the subsequent decline of biological determinism from the mid-twentieth century, and considers the complex relationship between theories of essential racial difference and the political rise of segregation and apartheid.
This is the first full-length study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa. Ranging broadly across disciplines in...
"A strength of the volume is its coverage of the "applied" aspects of knowledge, from Anthropology through to Eugenics and state and social planning. There is also a commendable sensitivity to the unique ethnic dynamics of southern Africa, not least, for example, the complications of an "indigenized" and powerful Afrikaner nationalism." Donal Lowry, Oxford Brookes University This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices on the one hand and the exercise of colonial power...
"A strength of the volume is its coverage of the "applied" aspects of knowledge, from Anthropology through to Eugenics and state and social planning. ...
Based on extensive archival research in South Africa and drawing on the most recent scholarship, this book is an original and lucid exposition of the ideological, political and administrative origins of Apartheid. It will add substantially to the understanding of contemporary South Africa.
Based on extensive archival research in South Africa and drawing on the most recent scholarship, this book is an original and lucid exposition of the ...
