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The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South

Book information

Year
1982
ISBN
9780521270618, 9780521240963, 9780511471049, 0521270618, 0521240964, 0511471041
LCC
DT763 .C36 1982
Open Library ID
OL21994434M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1936764 bytes)
Pages
334\334
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

An original and exciting work of comparative history, this book analyses the origins of segregation as a specific stage in the evolution of white supremacy in South Africa and the American South. Unlike scholars who have attributed twentieth-century patterns of race relations to the continuation of earlier social norms and attitudes, Cell understands segregation as a distinct system and ideology of race and class division, closely associated with urbanisation, industrialisation, and modern processes of state and party formation. Originally advocated by moderates and liberals, rather than by racist fanatic with whom it later came to be identified, segregation became comparatively sophisticated, flexible, and absorptive. In its ambiguities even advocates of black power could sometimes find a basis for collaboration.

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