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Description - South Africa's Racial Past by Paul Maylam

An overview of the whole 350-year history of South Africa's racial order, from the mid-17th century to the apartheid era. Paul Maylam periodises this racial order, drawing out its main phases and highlighting the significant turning points. he also analyzes the dynamics of South African white racism, exploring the key forces and factors that brought about and perpetuated oppressive, discriminatory policies, practices, structures, laws and attitudes. There is also a strong historiographical dimension to the study It shows how various writers have, from different perspectives, attempted to explain the South African racial order and draws out the political and ideological agendas that lay beneath these diverse interpretations.

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