| An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and Its Search for Survival Contributor(s): Miller, Jamie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0190055545 ISBN-13: 9780190055547 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - Political Science | Colonialism & Post-colonialism - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism |
| Dewey: 968.004 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.45 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - African - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - Southern Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The demise of apartheid was one of the great achievements of postwar history, sought after and celebrated by a progressive global community. Looking at these events from the other side, An African Volk explores how the apartheid state strove to maintain power as the world of white empire gave way to a post-colonial environment that repudiated racial hierarchy. Drawing upon archival research across Southern Africa and beyond, as well as interviews with leaders of the apartheid order, Jamie Miller shows how the white power structure attempted to turn the new political climate to its advantage. Instead of simply resisting decolonization and African nationalism in the name of white supremacy, the regime looked to co-opt and invert the norms of the new global era to promote a fresh ideological basis for its rule. It adapted discourses of nativist identity, African anti-colonialism, economic development, anti-communism, and state sovereignty to rearticulate what it meant to be African. An African Volk details both the global and local repercussions. At the dawn of the 1970s, the apartheid state reached out eagerly to independent Africa in an effort to reject the mantle of colonialism and redefine the white polity as a full part of the post-colonial world. This outreach both reflected and fuelled heated debates within white society, exposing a deeply divided polity in the midst of profound economic, cultural, and social change. Situated at the nexus of African, decolonization, and Cold War history, An African Volk takes readers into the corridors of white power to detail the apartheid regime's campaign to break out of isolation and secure global acceptance. |