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The highest stage of white supremacy : the origins of segregation in South Africa and the American South
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1982.
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| Online Access: | Sample text Table of contents Table of contents Publisher description |
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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. |
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xiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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0521240964 9780521240963 0521270618 9780521270618 |