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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814844503321

Autore

Fredrickson George M. <1934-2008.>

Titolo

White supremacy : a comparative study in American and South African history / / George M. Fredrickson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1981

ISBN

0-19-984048-2

1-283-09802-4

9786613098023

0-19-977192-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 356 p. ) : maps

Disciplina

305.800968

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights

Black people - Civil rights - South Africa

Indians of North America - Civil rights

White supremacy movements - United States - History

White supremacy movements - South Africa - History

United States Race relations

South Africa Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1982.

First published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1981.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

A comparative history of race relations in the U.S. and South Africa seeks to explain the different paths each nation followed.