Racism and reproduction: population rhetoric in South Africa, 1900-1974

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Title:	Racism and reproduction: population rhetoric in South Africa, 1900-1974
Author:	Moultrie, Tom A.
Year:	2005
Periodical:	African Studies
Volume:	64
Issue:	2
Period:	December
Pages:	217-242
Language:	English
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	population policy apartheid History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports) Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/00020180500355710
Abstract:	This paper argues that the fear of whites being 'swamped' and the perceived need to limit African fertility were central to the evolution and rhetoric of apartheid policies, not only in the realm of population, but in many other areas of public and political and social life too. The paper investigates the rhetoric and discourse of population policies in South Africa from the turn of the 20th century through to 1974. It shows how apartheid intellectuals and ideologues constructed the threat of rapid African population growth, State responses to this apparent threat, and the consequent evolution of population policies in South Africa. Furthermore, the rhetoric and the population policies adopted are situated in the context of the changing international debates and theories on population growth, family planning programmes and development (and their interrelationship) from the 1950s onwards. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]