
By Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
ISBN-10: 0520959973
ISBN-13: 9780520959972
A pathbreaking heritage of the advance of clinical racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy within the U.S. and South Africa within the early 20th century, Waste of a White epidermis specializes in the yankee Carnegie Corporation’s examine of race in South Africa, the terrible White research, and its impression at the production of apartheid.This booklet demonstrates the ways that U.S. elites supported apartheid and Afrikaner Nationalism within the severe interval ahead of 1948 via philanthropic interventions and shaping scholarly wisdom construction. instead of evaluating racial democracies and their engagement with medical racism, Willoughby-Herard outlines the ways that a racial regime of world whiteness constitutes household racial guidelines and partly animates black recognition in doubtless disparate and discontinuous racial democracies. This booklet makes use of key paradigms in black political thought—black feminism, black internationalism, and the black radical tradition—to supply a wealthy account of poverty and paintings. a lot of the scholarship on whiteness in South Africa overlooks the complicated politics of white poverty and what they suggest for the making of black political motion and black people’s presence within the financial system.Ideal for college students, students, and readers in parts regarding U.S. heritage, African historical past, global background, Diaspora experiences, Race and Ethnicity, Sociology, Anthropology, and Political technological know-how.