Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Bureaucracy and Race overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Ivan Evans shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native Affairs (DNA), which had dwindled during the last years of the segregation regime, unexpectedly revived and became the arrogant, authoritarian fortress of apartheid after 1948. The DNA was a major player in the prolonged exclusion of Africans from citizenship and the establishment of a racially repressive labor market. Exploring the connections between racial domination and bureaucratic growth in South Africa, Evans points out that the DNA's transformation of oppression into "civil administration" institutionalized and, for whites, legitimized a vast, coercive bureaucratic culture, which ensnared millions of Africans in its workings and corrupted the entire state. Evans focuses on certain features of apartheid--the pass system, the "racialization of space" in urban areas, and the cooptation of African chiefs in the Bantustans--in order to make it clear that the state's relentless administration, not its overtly repressive institutions, was the most distinctive feature of South Africa in the 1950s. All observers of South Africa past and present and of totalitarian states in general will follow with interest the story of how the Department of Native Affairs was crucial in transforming "the idea of apartheid" into a persuasive--and all too durable--practice.

Indigenous peoples --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- History & Archaeology --- Politics and government. --- Politics and government --- South Africa --- Race relations. --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Race question --- Adivasis --- Ethnology

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Diseases and history --- -Diseases and history --- -Epidemics --- -Indians --- -Aborigines, American --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Amerindians --- Amerinds --- Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Epidemiology --- Communicable diseases --- History and diseases --- History --- First contact with Europeans --- Civilization --- Outbreaks --- Influence on history --- Europe --- -Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Territorial expansion --- Epidemics --- History. --- First contact with Europeans. --- Territorial expansion. --- -History --- -Territorial expansion --- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners --- Council of Europe countries --- Diseases and history - America. --- Diseases and history - Europe. --- First contact (Anthropology)