Duncan Money - Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa: 1930s–1990s

This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa.

Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa challenges the geographical and chronological limitations of existing scholarship by presenting case studies from Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe that track the fortunes of nonhegemonic whites during the era of white minority rule. Arguing against prevalent understandings of white society as uniformly wealthy or culturally homogeneous during this period, it demonstrates that social class remained a salient element throughout the twentieth century, how Southern Africas white societies were often divided and riven with tension and how the resulting social, political and economic complexities animated white minority regimes in the region. Addressing themes such as the class-based disruption of racial norms and practices, state surveillance and interventions and their failures towards nonhegemonic whites, and the opportunities and limitations of physical and social mobility, the book mounts a forceful argument for the regional consideration of white societies in this historical context. Centrally, it extends the path-breaking insights emanating from scholarship on racialized class identities from North America to the African context to argue that race and class cannot be considered independently in Southern Africa.

This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Southern African studies, African history and the history of race.

Duncan Money is a historian of Southern Africa whose research focuses on the mining industry. He is currently a researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Netherlands and was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the International Studies Group, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann is a historian of race and class in modern South Africa. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of History, University of Basel, Switzerland.

This series includes in-depth research on aspects of economic, political, cultural and social history of individual countries as well as broad-reaching analyses of regional issues.

Themes include social and economic change, colonial experiences, independence movements, post-independence governments, globalisation in Africa, nationalism, gender histories, conflict, the Atlantic Slave trade, the environment, health and medicine, ethnicity, urbanisation, and neo-colonialism and aid.

Forthcoming titles:

Miscegenation, Identity and Status in Colonial Africa

Intimate Colonial Encounters

Lawrence Mbogoni

Displaced Mozambicans in Postcolonial Tanzania

Refugee Power, Mobility, Education, and Rural Development

Joanna T. Tague

Africans and the Holocaust

Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples

Edward Kissi

Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa

Shades of Empire

Lorena Rizzo

Womens Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique

Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging

Jonna Katto

Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa

1930s1990s

Duncan Money and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann

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Edited by Duncan Money and Danelle van Zyl-Hermann

First published 2020

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