White Supremacy A Comparative Study of American and South African History

by Fredrickson, George M.

• ISBN13: 9780195030426
• ISBN10: 0195030427
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1982-02-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this first comparative history of race relations in the United States and South Africa, George M. Fredrickson uncovers parallels and differences in the origin and expression of white supremacy in the two countries.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Settlement and Subjugation, 1600-1840	3	(51)
Two Frontiers	3	(4)
The Image of the Savage	7	(6)
Rehearsals: Ireland and Indonesia	13	(8)
The Dispossession of the Coastal Indians and the Cape Khoikhoi	21	(19)
The Trans-Appalachian and Eastern Cape Frontiers	40	(14)
The Rise of Racial Slavery in the South and the Cape	54	(40)
The Emergence of a Labor System	54	(16)
The Ideological Origins of Slavery	70	(6)
From Religious to Racial Slavery in Virginia and South Africa	76	(9)
Slavery and Society in the South and the Cape	85	(9)
Race Mixture and the Color Line	94	(42)
Race Mixture in Comparative Perspective	94	(5)
Early Race Mixture: The Restrictive American Pattern	99	(9)
Early Race Mixture: The Permissive South African Pattern	108	(16)
The Origins of Difference	124	(5)
The Legacy of the Early Patterns	129	(7)
Liberty, Union, and White Supremacy, 1776-1910	136	(63)
White Politics and the Emergence of New Nations	136	(4)
Revolution, Rebellion, and the Limits of Equality, 1776-1820	140	(10)
White Supremacy and the American Sectional Conflict	150	(12)
White Supremacy and the Anglo-Afrikaner Conflict,1820-77	162	(17)
Emancipations, Reconstructions, and Political Consolidation	179	(20)
Industrialism, White Labor, and Racial Discrimination	199	(40)
Industrialization and Ethnic Pluralism	199	(6)
The Industrial Legacy of Slavery and the Rise of the Machine	205	(7)
The Segmentation of Labor, 1870-1910	212	(9)
The Emergence of Class and Race Conflict	221	(13)
Why No Industrial Color Bar in the United States?	234	(5)
Two Strange Careers: Segregation in South Africa and the South	239	(44)
Jim Crow and ``Native Segregation'': A Contrast	239	(16)
A Closer Parallel: Southern Blacks and Cape Coloreds	255	(2)
The Era of Laissez-Faire Segregation	257	(11)
The Emergence of Legalized Segregation and Disfranchisement	268	(15)
Chronology of Major Events	283	(6)
Notes	289	(52)
Index	341