Format:
1 online resource (320 pages)
ISBN:
9780199771929
Content:
In this first comparative history of race relations in the United States and South Africa, George M. Fredrickson uncovers parallels and differences in the origin and expression of white supremacy in the two countries.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Settlement and Subjugation, 1600-1840 -- Two Frontiers -- The Image of the Savage -- Rehearsals: Ireland and Indonesia -- The Dispossession of the Coastal Indians and the Cape Khoikhoi -- The Trans-Appalachian and Eastern Cape Frontiers -- II. The Rise of Racial Slavery in the South and the Cape -- The Emergence of a Labor System -- The Ideological Origins of Slavery -- From Religious to Racial Slavery in Virginia and South Africa -- Slavery and Society in the South and the Cape -- III. Race Mixture and the Color Line -- Race Mixture in Comparative Perspective -- Early Race Mixture: The Restrictive American Pattern -- Early Race Mixture: The Permissive South African Pattern -- The Origins of Difference, -- The Legacy of the Early Patterns -- IV. Liberty, Union, and White Supremacy, 1776-1910 -- White Politics and the Emergence of New Nations -- Revolution, Rebellion, and the Limits of Equality, 1776-1820 -- White Supremacy and the American Sectional Conflict -- White Supremacy and the Anglo-Africaner Conflict, 1820-77 -- Emancipations, Reconstructions, and Political Consolidation -- V. Industrialism, White Labor, and Racial Discrimination -- Industrialization and Ethnic Pluralism -- The Industrial Legacy of Slavery and the Rise of the Machine -- The Segmentation of Labor, 1870-1910 -- The Emergence of Class and Race Conflict -- Why No Industrial Color Bar in the United States? -- VI. Two Strange Careers: Segregation in South Africa and the South -- Jim Crow and "Native Segregation": A Contrast -- A Closer Parallel: Southern Blacks and Cape Coloreas -- The Era of Laissez-Faire Segregation -- The Emergence of Legalized Segregation and Disfranchisement -- Chronology of Major Events -- Notes -- Index -- Footnotes.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195030426
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780195030426
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=679475
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