The Highest Stage of White Supremacy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521270618)

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 Whitson Cell
ISBN-10: 0521270618
ISBN-13: 9780521270618
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/29/1982
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.02w x 0.84d