Apartheid, 1948-1994
Apartheid, 1948-1994 by Saul Dubow is an illustrated edition published by OUP Oxford in May 2014, comprising 360 pages in English. This study presents a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa, emerging from the author’s extensive research into the history of racial segregation. It draws on new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs to situate apartheid within both global and local contexts, integrating studies of resistance with analyses of power.
Readers will find that Dubow’s work refamiliarizes and defamiliarizes the concept of apartheid, approaching South Africa’s white supremacist past from various perspectives. The book explores not only the reasons behind the eventual defeat of apartheid but also examines how it managed to endure for so long. This synoptic reinterpretation aims to introduce students to the complexities of apartheid while generating new questions for experts in the fields of history and political science, particularly regarding human rights and the socio-political landscape of 20th-century South Africa.
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This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author’s long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs, he situates apartheid in global as well as local contexts. The overall conception of Apartheid, 1948-1994 is to integrate studies of resistance with the analysis of power, paying attention to the importance of ideas, institutions, and culture. Saul Dubow refamiliarises and defamiliarise apartheid so as to approach South Africa’s white supremacist past from unlikely perspectives. He asks not only why apartheid was defeated, but how it survived so long. He neither presumes the rise of apartheid nor its demise. This synoptic reinterpretation is designed to introduce students to apartheid and to generate new questions for experts in the field.
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