Bantu Authorities - Apartheid''s System of Race and Ethnicity

This book provides the first holistic study of Bantu Authorities (BA), the system South Africa created to implement rural apartheid. Based on interviews with Zulus and former commissioners and archival research, Bantu Authorities proves the primary objective of the system was to protect white capital, with white racial purity secondary.

About the author

Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner is a 2019 Silas Palmer Fellow at The Hoover Institute at Stanford University.

Summary

This book provides the first holistic study of Bantu Authorities (BA), the system South Africa created to implement rural apartheid. Based on interviews with Zulus and former commissioners and archival research, Bantu Authorities proves the primary objective of the system was to protect white capital, with white racial purity secondary.

Product details

• Authors: Veronica Ehrenreich-Risner
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781793631268
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-126-8
• No. of pages: 388
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Republic of South Africa, Public Administration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Public administration / Public policy