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Title:Landscape, social Darwinism and the cultural roots of South African racial ideology
Author:Rich, PaulISNI
Book title:The societies of Southern Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. Vol. 13
Year:1984
Pages:51-58
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subject:racism
Abstract:This essay examines the development of white racial ideology in South Africa in the context of changing imagery of landscape and social Darwinist notions of race fitness. According to the author, the significance of 'landscape' in South African history has tended to be overlooked by most historians, both liberal and revisionist. Sections: racism and the development of South African landscape imagery - social darwinism and the middle landscape. Notes.