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Waste of a White Skin [Elektronische Ressource] : The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic of White Vulnerability

Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany,i1973-

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2015

894 p.

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978-0-520-28086-1

 

f Online-Publikation  Südafrika  Minderheitenfrage  USA  Außenpolitik  Carnegie Corporation of New York  Apartheid 

 

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Online-Ressource

978-0-520-95997-2

A pathbreaking history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy in the U.S. and South Africa in the early twentieth century, Waste of a White Skin focuses on the American Carnegie Corporation's study of race in South Africa, the Poor White Study, and its influence on the creation of apartheid.This book demonstrates the ways in which U.S. elites supported apartheid and Afrikaner Nationalism in the critical period prior to 1948 through philanthropic interventions and shaping scholarly knowledge production. Rather than comparing racial democracie...