The Highest Stage of White Supremacy

An original and exciting work of comparative history, this book analyses 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 urbanisation, industrialisation, 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.

Author: John W. Cell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/12/1982
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.02w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780521270618

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