Short description
Offering a selection of significant essays contributed by prominent writers of various perspectives, "Segregation and Apartheid in 20th Century South Africa" is and unparalleled introduction to this highly contentious and absorbing subject of international import.
The collection is supplemented by a specially written introduction by editors William Beinhart and Saul Dubow, which contextualizes the historiographical controversy. This introduction is comprehensive and current, taking into account the 1994 election and associated changes.
Also included in this volume are explanatory notes and article summaries, and a glossary of unusual terms which make this collection easily accessible to all interested readers.
Long description
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 11 articles which span the whole history of segregation from its origins to its final collapse and reviews the new historiography of segregation and the wide variety of intellectual traditions on which it is based. It also includes a glossary, explanatory notes and further reading.
Review
An outstanding collection, a kind of gathering of the harvest of 20 years of intense scholarly and political debate. The book will be required reading for anyone interested in the political and intellectual origins of apartheid.
-Jim Campbell, Northwestern University
A most welcome reader for those wishing to follow the historical literature of the subject. It includes many of the key writings which influenced subsequent research and will continue to have an impact upon the way we look at the past.
-A. J. Christopher, University of Port Elizabeth
Table of contents
- The historiography of segregation and apartheid
- the sanitation syndrome
- subonic plague and urban native policy in the Cape Colony
- , Maynard Swanson
- British hegemony and the origins of segregation in South Africa
- , Martin Legassick
- capitalism and cheap labour power in South Africa
- , Harold Wolpe
- natal, the Zulu royal family and the ideology of segregation, Shula Marks
- Marxism, feminism and South African studies, Belinda Bozzoli
- the elaboration of segregationalist ideology, Saul Dubow
- chieftaincy and the concept of articulation
- South Africa c
- , William Beinart
- the growth of Afrikaner identity, Hermann Giliomee
- the meaning of apartheid before
- conflicting interests and forces within the Afrikaner nationalist alliance, Deborah Posel
- displaced
- urbanization
- South Africa's rural slums, Colin Murray
- ethnicity in the Ciskei, J
- B
- Peires