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 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
Print Book, English, 1982
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1982
History
xiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm
9780521240963, 9780521270618, 0521240964, 0521270618
8387870
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