The Anxieties of White Supremacy : : Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset / / Christoph Marx.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Marx, Christoph,
• MitwirkendeR: Kistner, Ulrike,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2023]; De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2023; 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Africa in Global History , 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 580 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Principles --; Sharpened Thoughts – Blunted Feelings --; Trajectories --; From Sociology to Social Policy --; Propaganda --; Organised Unity of the “Volk” --; Chaos and Order --; Difference and Purity --; Apartheid --; Knowledge and Epistemologies of Ignorance – Justifications of Apartheid from the Human Sciences --; ‘Homelands’ --; Repression and Control --; Modernisation --; The Breath of Death --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Literature --; Name Index --; Location Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110787313; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319131; 9783111318189
• ISSN: 2628-1767
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110787313
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christoph Marx.

Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958–1966) is widely regarded as the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa. This study examines how he developed the ideology of racial separation into a comprehensive system. It also looks into Verwoerd’s intellectual development and his academic career before he entered politics. Apartheid was to Verwoerd less a defense of colonialism but a policy for the future, he was an authoritarian modernizer and a true representative of the Age of Extremes.