Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa

by Saul Dubow

Book Overview

This is the first full-length study of the history of intellectual and scientific racism in modern South Africa. Ranging broadly across disciplines in the social sciences, sciences and humanities, it charts the rise of scientific racism during the late nineteenth century and the subsequent decline of biological determinism from the mid-twentieth century, and considers the complex relationship between theories of essential racial difference and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052147907X
• ISBN13: 9780521479073
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"