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Title: | Facing the Challenge of 'Young Africa': Apartheid, South Africa and British Decolonisation |
Author: | Skinner, Rob |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal |
Issue: | 54 |
Pages: | 54-71 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Great Britain |
Subjects: | anti-apartheid resistance clergy Anglican Church colonialism History and Exploration Ethnic and Race Relations nationalism |
About persons: | Michael Scott (1907-1983) Lewis John Collins (1905-1982) Ernest Urban Trevor Huddleston (1913-1998) |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582470509464898 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the emergence of anti-apartheid activism in Britain during the 1950s, and suggests that a historical assessment of this developing critique of apartheid - with its central theme of solidarity with the African nationalist cause - must give centre stage to the operation of moral debate in politics. Anti-apartheid activism centred upon a struggle between rights-centred morality and racially-ordered immorality, a fundamental element of the language of decolonization. The paper focuses on a small number of 'turbulent' Anglican priests. Through an examination of the interconnected careers of Michael Scott, John Collins and Trevor Huddleston the paper outlines the salient points of a developing debate around apartheid within the Anglican Church, and the relationship between that debate and wider public criticism of racial injustice in South Africa. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |