ISBN:
9780520280861
,
9780520959972 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
894 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780520959972
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
305.80906809041
Keywords:
Carnegie Corporation of New York
;
Minderheitenfrage
;
Außenpolitik
;
Apartheid
;
Südafrika
;
USA
;
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
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...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Online-Ausg.:
