| Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa Contributor(s): Dubow, Saul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521473438 ISBN-13: 9780521473439 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 1995 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 94022743 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.29" W x 9.25" (1.60 lbs) 334 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |