George Frederickson's Racism and United States/South African Comparisons
| dc.contributor.author | Saunders, Christopher C | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-26T09:29:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-02-26T09:29:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-12-17T14:07:17Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | After spending much of his career comparing the United States and South Africa, George M. Fredrickson has now written a short history of racism.1 This is, of course, a bold undertaking, and let it be said at once that his book is both very readable and densely packed with illuminating and suggestive insights. After some discussion of the meaning of the term “racism,” Fredrickson begins with a survey of its origins. He moves from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the rise of modern forms of racism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Along the way, he inevitably draws a number of comparisons between different racial systems. What follows here is not a review of the book as a whole—that has been done elsewhere, most notably by Orlando Patterson2 —but is a commentary on what he says regarding the United States and South Africa, as a way of drawing the attention of those interested in comparing the two to Fredrickson’s ideas in his latest work. These ideas are of course in part drawn from his earlier comparative writing. It is indeed fortunate for those interested in such comparisons that so distinguished a scholar, a former President of the Organization of American Historians,3 who has described himself as a “heterosexual white male of Swedish-American ancestry,”4 should have devoted so much of his distinguished academic career to comparing aspects of race in these two societies. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Saunders, C. C. (2003). George Frederickson's Racism and United States/South African Comparisons. <i>Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17296 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Saunders, Christopher C "George Frederickson's Racism and United States/South African Comparisons." <i>Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies</i> (2003) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17296 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Saunders, C. C. (2003). George Fredrickson's Racism and United States/South African Comparisons. Safundi, 4(3), 1-6, DOI: 10.1080/17533170300404304. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1753-3171 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Saunders, Christopher C AB - After spending much of his career comparing the United States and South Africa, George M. Fredrickson has now written a short history of racism.1 This is, of course, a bold undertaking, and let it be said at once that his book is both very readable and densely packed with illuminating and suggestive insights. After some discussion of the meaning of the term “racism,” Fredrickson begins with a survey of its origins. He moves from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the rise of modern forms of racism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Along the way, he inevitably draws a number of comparisons between different racial systems. What follows here is not a review of the book as a whole—that has been done elsewhere, most notably by Orlando Patterson2 —but is a commentary on what he says regarding the United States and South Africa, as a way of drawing the attention of those interested in comparing the two to Fredrickson’s ideas in his latest work. These ideas are of course in part drawn from his earlier comparative writing. It is indeed fortunate for those interested in such comparisons that so distinguished a scholar, a former President of the Organization of American Historians,3 who has described himself as a “heterosexual white male of Swedish-American ancestry,”4 should have devoted so much of his distinguished academic career to comparing aspects of race in these two societies. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 SM - 1753-3171 T1 - George Frederickson's Racism and United States/South African Comparisons TI - George Frederickson's Racism and United States/South African Comparisons UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17296 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17296 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17533170300404304 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Saunders CC. George Frederickson's Racism and United States/South African Comparisons. Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies. 2003; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17296. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Historical Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.source | Safundi | |
| dc.source.uri | www.safundi.com | |
| dc.title | George Frederickson's Racism and United States/South African Comparisons | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |