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Title:Holding 'A Just Balance between White and Black': The Native Affairs Department in South Africa c.1920-1933
Author:Dubow, SaulISNI
Year:1986
Periodical:Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:12
Issue:2
Period:April
Pages:217-239
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:segregation
colonial policy
indigenous peoples
History and Exploration
Ethnic and Race Relations
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/2636744
Abstract:In order to administer the welter of segregation ist legislation which was introduced during the interwar years, the Native Affair a Department (NAD) underwent considerable expansion. Its sphere of jurisdiction was increased, its powers were greatly enhanced and the administration tone of the Department also changed. A great deal of the pioneering reinterpretation of South African history since the early 1970s has been characterized by a capital and state-centric perspective. The author of this paper has a less narrowly purposive view of the state. He takes a closer look at the nature and functioning of the NAD within state as a whole. Aim is to damonstrate how segregation was modified by struggles within the state, and how the ideology of segregation was played out in the prosecution of these struggles. Notes.
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