Publication

1995 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

80,000 words, Guess

Page Count

320 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing696053
  • Goodreads4591055

Classifications

  • DDC305.8/00968
  • LCCDT1756 .D84 1995

Description

This book 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 and biological determinism from the late nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. Set against the rise of apartheid, the book illuminates the complex relationship between theories of essential racial difference and the development of white supremacist thinking. Saul Dubow draws extensively on comparable studies of intellectual racism in Europe and the United States to demonstrate the selective absorption of widely prevalent conceptions of racial difference in the particular historical context of South Africa. The issues he addresses are of relevance to both Africanist and international students of racism and race relations.

Subjects

Topics

RaceRacismRacismeHistoryEugenicsApartheidRassismus

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Other Editions

  • Scientific racism in modern South AfricaCambridge University Press1995-01-01

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