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The Anxieties of White Supremacy : Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset

Marx, ChristophKistner, Ulrike(Translated by)
Part of the Africa in Global History series
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Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958–1966) is widely regarded as the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa.

This study examines how he developed the ideology of racial separation into a comprehensive system.

It also looks into Verwoerd’s intellectual development and his academic career before he entered politics.

Apartheid was to Verwoerd less a defense of colonialism but a policy for the future, he was an authoritarian modernizer and a true representative of the Age of Extremes.

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Product Details
de Gruyter Oldenbourg
3110787261 / 9783110787269
Hardback
06/11/2023
Germany
English
589 pages
23 cm
Translated from the German.