Racial Attraction: Tracing the Historiographical Alliances between South Africa and the United States

Cuthbertson, Greg

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“…With reference to recent attempts in South Africa to restructure history education in schools and making changes to history syllabi and textbooks, Cuthbertson (1994Cuthbertson ( :1133 points out how these debates remind of the 'multicultural wars' that have raged in the United States in a similar societal context of cultural diversity. There multiculturalism has been regarded as the cause of a fractured history and has lead to separation instead of integration because of its links with political correctness.…”

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“…• new and disguised forms of maintaining power and the privileges of particular cultural groups; • reviving 'race instincts'; • neo-colonialism and neo-apartheid; and • reproducing imperialist modes of discourse whereby, in the South African context, the opposition between the knowing (Western) agent and the object of knowledge (African) is perpetuated (Anderson, 1996;Cuthbertson, 1994;De Kock, 1992;Pedersen, 1994;Villa-Vincencio, 1995).…”

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The smell of fried onions and other stories: a case study in a narrative understanding of multicultural competence

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2000

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The smell of fried onions and other stories: a case study in a narrative understanding of multicultural competence

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2000

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Apropos Exceptionalism: Imperial Location and Comparative Histories of South Africa and the United States

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1997

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Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in (Post) Colonial Studies

Stoler¹

2003

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This essay takes as its subject how intimate domains - sex, sentiment, domestic arrangement and child rearing - figure in the making of racial categories and in the management of imperial rule. For some two decades my work on Indonesia's Dutch colonial history has addressed patterns of governance that were particular to that time and place but resonant with practices in a wider global field. My perspective thus is that of an outsider to, but an acquisitive consumer of comparative historical studies, one long struck with the disparate and congruent imperial projects in Asia, Africa and the Americas. This essay invites reflection on those domains of overlap and difference. My interest is more specifically in what Albert Hurtado refers to as ‘the intimate frontiers’ of empire, a social and cultural space where racial classifications were defined and defied, where relations between coloniser and colonised could powerfully confound or confirm the strictures of governance and the categories of rule. Some two decades ago, Sylvia van Kirk urged a focus on such ‘tender ties’ as a way to explore the ‘human dimension’ of the colonial encounter.’ As she showed so well, what Michel Foucault has called these ‘dense transfer point[s]’ of power that generate such ties were sites of production of colonial inequities and, therefore, of tense ties as well. Among students of colonialisms in the last decade, the intimacies of empire have been a rich and well-articulated research domain. A more sustained focus on the relationship between what Foucault refers to as ‘the regimes of truth’ of imperial systems (the ways of knowing and establishing truth claims about race and difference on which macro polities rely) and those micro sites of governance may reveal how these colonial empires compare and converge.

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Racial Attraction: Tracing the Historiographical Alliances between South Africa and the United States

Cited by 8 publications

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The smell of fried onions and other stories: a case study in a narrative understanding of multicultural competence

The smell of fried onions and other stories: a case study in a narrative understanding of multicultural competence

Apropos Exceptionalism: Imperial Location and Comparative Histories of South Africa and the United States

Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in (Post) Colonial Studies

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