Rethinking white societies in southern Africa : 1930s-1990s / edited by Duncan Money and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann.

• Introduction : Rethinking white societies in Southern Africa, 1930s–1990s / Duncan Money, Danelle van Zyl-Hermann -- Workers called white and classes called poor :?The “White Working Class” and “Poor Whites” in Southern Africa, 1910–1994 / Jonathan Hyslop -- Rhodesian state paternalism and the white working-class family, 1930s–1950s /?Ivo Mhike -- Immigration and settlement of “undesirable” whites in Southern Rhodesia, c. 1940s–1960s / George Bishi -- White people fit for a new South Africa? State planning, policy and social response in the parastatal cities of the Vaal, 1940–1990 / Bill Freund -- Whites, but not quite : Settler imaginations in late colonial Mozambique, c. 1951–1964 / Caio Simões de Araújo -- “Village Portugal” in Africa : Discourses of differentiation and hierarchisation of settlers, 1950s–1974 / Cláudia Castelo -- Labour and mobility on Rhodesia’s railways : The 1954 firemen’s strike / Nicola Ginsburgh -- The dog that didn’t bark : The Mufulira strike and white mineworkers at Zambian independence / Duncan Money -- Social engineering and scientific management : Some reflections on the apartheid public service and historical process / Neil Roos -- White workers and the unravelling of racial citizenship in late apartheid South Africa / Danelle van Zyl-Hermann. 

• 'Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa' challenges the geographical and chronological limitations of existing scholarship by presenting case studies from Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe that track the fortunes of nonhegemonic whites during the era of white minority rule. Arguing against prevalent understandings of white society as uniformly wealthy or culturally homogeneous during this period, it demonstrates that social class remained a salient element throughout the twentieth century, how Southern Africa's white societies were often divided and riven with tension and how the resulting social, political and economic complexities animated white minority regimes in the region. Addressing themes such as the class-based disruption of racial norms and practices, state surveillance and interventions-and their failures- towards nonhegemonic whites, and the opportunities and limitations of physical and social mobility, the book mounts a forceful argument for the regional consideration of white societies in this historical context. Centrally, it extends the path-breaking insights emanating from scholarship on racialized class identities from North America to the African context to argue that race and class cannot be considered independently in Southern Africa. 

Ämnesord

Whites  -- Africa, Southern -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Whites  -- Race identity -- Africa, Southern. (LCSH)

Social classes  -- Africa, Southern -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Africa, Southern  -- Race relations. (LCSH)

1900-1999  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

DT1768.W55 (LCC)

305.8/09/068 (DDC)

Ma (kssb/8 (machine generated))