The Origins of Non-Racialism: White Opposition to Apartheid in the 1950s - Couverture souple

Everatt, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 186814500X ISBN 13 : 9781868145003

Editeur : Wits University Press, 2009

Synopsis

How did South Africa embrace "non-racialism"? After centuries of white domination and decades of increasingly savage repression, freedom came to South Africa far later than elsewhere in the continent - and yet was marked by a commitment to non-racialism. Nelson Mandela's Cabinet and government were made up of women and men of all races, and many spoke of the birth of a new 'Rainbow Nation'. How did this come about? How did an African nationalist liberation movement resisting apartheid - a universally denounced violent expression of white supremacy - open its doors to other races, and whites in particular? And what did non-racialism mean? This is the real 'miracle' of South Africa: that at the height of white supremacy and repression, black and white democrats - in their different organisations, coming from vastly different backgrounds and traditions - agreed on one thing: that the future for South Africa would be non-racial.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Everatt is the Head of the Wits School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wits University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 186814500X
• ISBN 13: 9781868145003
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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