White power and the liberal conscience: racial segregation and South African liberalism 1921-1960

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Title:	White power and the liberal conscience: racial segregation and South African liberalism 1921-1960
Author:	Rich, Paul B
Year:	1984
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Manchester
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
ISBN:	0719009405
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	liberalism race relations
Abstract:	This study in the intellectual history of South Africa, traces the development of transatlantic ties and the influence of the social sciences on liberal ideas. It relates the wider themes now emerging in the study of South African history to the recurrent debate between the liberal and the Marxist approaches. If liberalism failed to mediate between the state and the black working class, its impact on the government was not negligible, and its effect on nationalist leaders like Mandela, Luthuli and Tambo was immense.