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- The Origins of Non-Racialism: White opposition to apartheid in the 1950s
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Wits University Press
summary
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.Indexed in Clarivate Analytics Book Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- p. vi
- List of abbreviations
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- Chapter 6: The Liberal Party of South Africa
- pp. 123-144
- Chapter 7: Overhauling liberalism
- pp. 145-168
- Chapter 8: The Congress of the People
- pp. 169-194
- Bibliography
- pp. 249-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9781868146581
Related ISBN(s)
9781868145003, 9781868147991
MARC Record
OCLC
1016779190
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No