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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Main Author: Cell, John Whitson.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.
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  • 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.