Scientific Racism In Modern South Africa

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Scientific Racism In Modern South Africa

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Author : Saul Dubow
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-06-30

Scientific Racism In Modern South Africa written by Saul Dubow and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-06-30 with History categories.

A study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa.

A Commonwealth Of Knowledge

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Author : Saul Dubow
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-10-19

A Commonwealth Of Knowledge written by Saul Dubow and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-19 with History categories.

A Commonwealth of Knowledge addresses the relationship between social and scientific thought, colonial identity, and political power in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa. It hinges on the tension between colonial knowledge, conceived of as a universal, modernizing force, and its realization in the context of a society divided along complex ethnic and racial fault-lines. By means of detailed analysis of colonial cultures, literary and scientific institutions, and expert historical thinking about South Africa and its peoples, it demonstrates the ways in which the cultivation of knowledge has served to support white political ascendancy and claims to nationhood. In a sustained commentary on modern South African historiography, the significance of `broad' South Africanism - a political tradition designed to transcend differences between white English- and Afrikaans-speakers - is emphasized. A Commonwealth of Knowledge also engages with wider comparative debates. These include the nature of imperial and colonial knowledge systems; the role of intellectual ideas and concepts in constituting ethnic, racial, and regional identities; the dissemination of ideas between imperial metropole and colonial periphery; the emergence of amateur and professional intellectual communities; and the encounter between imperial and indigenous or local knowledge systems. The book has broad scope. It opens with a discussion of civic institutions (eg. museums, libraries, botanical gardens and scientific societies), and assesses their role in creating a distinctive sense of Cape colonial identity; the book goes on to discuss the ways in which scientific and other forms of knowledge contributed to the development of a capacious South Africanist patriotism compatible with continued membership of the British Commonwealth; it concludes with reflections on the techno-nationalism of the apartheid state and situates contemporary concerns like the `African Renaissance', and responses to HIV/AIDS, in broad historical context.

The Scientific Imagination In South Africa

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Author : William Beinart
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-20

The Scientific Imagination In South Africa written by William Beinart and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with History categories.

An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.

Darwin S Hunch

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Author : Christa Kuljian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016

Darwin S Hunch written by Christa Kuljian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.

Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South Africa and provides fresh insight on the search for human origins - in the fields of palaeoanthropology and genetics - over the past century. The book follows the colonial practice in Europe, the US and South Africa of collecting human skeletons and cataloguing them into racial types, in the hope that they would provide clues to human evolution. Kuljian sheds light on how, during apartheid, the concept of racial classification mirrored the way in which many scientists thought about race and human evolution.

Waste Of A White Skin

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Author : Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-01-06

Waste Of A White Skin written by Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-06 with History categories.

A pathbreaking history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy in the U.S. and South Africa in the early twentieth century, Waste of a White Skin focuses on the American Carnegie CorporationÕs study of race in South Africa, the Poor White Study, and its influence on the creation of apartheid. This book demonstrates the ways in which U.S. elites supported apartheid and Afrikaner Nationalism in the critical period prior to 1948 through philanthropic interventions and shaping scholarly knowledge production. Rather than comparing racial democracies and their engagement with scientific racism, Willoughby-Herard outlines the ways in which a racial regime of global whiteness constitutes domestic racial policies and in part animates black consciousness in seemingly disparate and discontinuous racial democracies. This book uses key paradigms in black political thoughtÑblack feminism, black internationalism, and the black radical traditionÑto provide a rich account of poverty and work. Much of the scholarship on whiteness in South Africa overlooks the complex politics of white poverty and what they mean for the making of black political action and black peopleÕs presence in the economic system. Ideal for students, scholars, and interested readers in areas related to U.S. History, African History, World History, Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology, Anthropology, and Political Science.

The Retreat Of Scientific Racism

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Author : Elazar Barkan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992

The Retreat Of Scientific Racism written by Elazar Barkan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.

This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors.

Whiteness Just Isn T What It Used To Be

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Author : Melissa Steyn
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2001-08-30

Whiteness Just Isn T What It Used To Be written by Melissa Steyn and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-30 with Social Science categories.

The election of 1994, which heralded the demise of Apartheid as a legally enforced institutionalization of “whiteness,” disconnected the prior moorings of social identity for most South Africans, whatever their political persuasion. In one of the most profound collective psychological experiences of the contemporary world, South Africans are renegotiating the meaning of their social positionalities. In this book, Melissa Steyn, herself a white South African, grapples with what it means to be white, reflecting on events in her past that still resonate with her today. Her research includes discourse with more than fifty white South Africans who are faced with reinterpreting their old selves in the light of new knowledge and possibilities. Framed within current debates of postcolonialism and postmodernism, “Whiteness Just Isn’t What It Used To Be” explores how the changes in South Africa’s social and political structure are changing the white population’s identity and sense of self.

Racism A Very Short Introduction

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Author : Ali Rattansi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-26

Racism A Very Short Introduction written by Ali Rattansi and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-26 with Social Science categories.

There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions. In our world today there are a variety of racisms at play, and it is necessary to distinguish between issues such as individual prejudice, and systemic racisms which entrench racialiazed inequalities over time. This Very Short Introduction explores the history of racial ideas and a wide range of racisms - biological, cultural, colour-blind, and structural - and illuminates issues that have been the subject of recent debates. Is Islamophobia a form of racism? Is there a new antisemitism? Why has whiteness become an important source of debate? What is Intersectionality? What is unconscious or implicit bias, and what is its importance in understanding racial discrimination? Ali Rattansi tackles these questions, and also shows why African Americans and other ethnic minorities in the USA and Europe continue to suffer from discrimination today that results in ongoing disadvantage in these white dominant societies. Finally he explains why there has been a resurgence of national populist and far-right movements and explores their implications for the future of racism. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

The Idea Of Development In Africa

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Author : Corrie Decker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29

The Idea Of Development In Africa written by Corrie Decker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Business & Economics categories.

An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.

Racism After Apartheid

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Author : Vishwas Satgar
language : en
Publisher: Wits University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-01

Racism After Apartheid written by Vishwas Satgar and has been published by Wits University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-01 with Social Science categories.

Racism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism to take these lived realities seriously and consistently struggle to build human solidarities.