The highest stage of white supremacy : the origins of segregation in South Africa and the American South John W. Cell

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cell, John Whitson

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

Segregation--Southern States.

Segregation.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

African Americans--Segregation--Southern States.

African Americans.

White supremacy movements--South Africa.

White supremacy movements.

Physical Description:

xiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Summary:

An original and exciting work of comparative history, this book analyzes 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 urbanization, industrialization, 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.--Publisher description.

Contents:

The problem of segregation

Contemporary perspectives

Recent interpretations of the origins of segregation in South Africa

The origins of segregation in the American South : The Woodward thesis and its critics

The South makes segregation : the economic interpretation

The South makes segregation : the social interpretation

A note on Southern moderates and segregation

South Africa makes segregation

Conclusion : reactions to segregation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521240964

9780521240963

0521270618

9780521270618

OCLC:

8387870

Online:

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