Anxieties of White Supremacy Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset
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Christoph Marx, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany.Anxieties of White Supremacy Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958–1966) is widely regarded as the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa. This study examines how he developed the ideology of racial separation into a comprehensive system. It also looks into Verwoerd’s intellectual development and his academic career before he entered politics. Apartheid was to Verwoerd less a defense of colonialism but a policy for the future, he was an authoritarian modernizer and a true representative of the Age of Extremes.
"Marx’s meticulous analysis of Verwoerd’s scientific oeuvre reveals fascinating insights into the politician’s mindset – his notion of an absolute truth that could be established once and for all through scientific means, his dismissal of emotions, and his uncompromising dogmatism" – Julia Tischler (Universität Basel ) in H-Soz-Kult (19.12.2024), https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-94648.
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"Dem Autor ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Geschichte der Apartheid gelungen, deren Ursprünge jetzt genauer geklärt werden müssen." – Eberhard Zimmermann in Das Historisch-Politische Buch 71 (2023) 3–4, 490
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958–1966) is widely regarded as the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa. This study examines how he developed the ideology of racial separation into a comprehensive system. It also looks into Verwoerd’s intellectual development and his academic career before he entered politics. Apartheid was to Verwoerd less a defense of colonialism but a policy for the future, he was an authoritarian modernizer and a true representative of the Age of Extremes.
"Marx’s meticulous analysis of Verwoerd’s scientific oeuvre reveals fascinating insights into the politician’s mindset – his notion of an absolute truth that could be established once and for all through scientific means, his dismissal of emotions, and his uncompromising dogmatism" – Julia Tischler (Universität Basel ) in H-Soz-Kult (19.12.2024), https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-94648.
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"Dem Autor ist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Geschichte der Apartheid gelungen, deren Ursprünge jetzt genauer geklärt werden müssen." – Eberhard Zimmermann in Das Historisch-Politische Buch 71 (2023) 3–4, 490