Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa

This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa. Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa challenges the geographical and chronological limitations of existing scholarship by presenting case studies from Angola, Mozamb...

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description This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa. 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. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of southern African studies, African history, and the history of race.
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Young Man
Late Apartheid South Africa
Early Apartheid South Africa
South Africa’s Racial Order
Late Apartheid Period
Subaltern Whites
Southern Rhodesia
White Mineworkers
White Labourism
Colonial Administration
Rhodesia Railways
Poor White Problem
Large Family
Industrial Citizenship
Rhodesian Settler
Wiehahn Commission
White Working Class
Van Der Bijl
Top Bottom Structure
White Working Class Identity
Santa Comba
Springbok Legion
Twentieth Century Southern Africa
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Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa
title Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa
title_full Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa
title_fullStr Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa
title_full_unstemmed Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa
title_short Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa
title_sort rethinking white societies in southern africa
topic Watch Tower Society
Young Man
Late Apartheid South Africa
Early Apartheid South Africa
South Africa’s Racial Order
Late Apartheid Period
Subaltern Whites
Southern Rhodesia
White Mineworkers
White Labourism
Colonial Administration
Rhodesia Railways
Poor White Problem
Large Family
Industrial Citizenship
Rhodesian Settler
Wiehahn Commission
White Working Class
Van Der Bijl
Top Bottom Structure
White Working Class Identity
Santa Comba
Springbok Legion
Twentieth Century Southern Africa
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture
topic_facet Watch Tower Society
Young Man
Late Apartheid South Africa
Early Apartheid South Africa
South Africa’s Racial Order
Late Apartheid Period
Subaltern Whites
Southern Rhodesia
White Mineworkers
White Labourism
Colonial Administration
Rhodesia Railways
Poor White Problem
Large Family
Industrial Citizenship
Rhodesian Settler
Wiehahn Commission
White Working Class
Van Der Bijl
Top Bottom Structure
White Working Class Identity
Santa Comba
Springbok Legion
Twentieth Century Southern Africa
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture
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