Mission Science And Race In South Africa

Author : Keith Snedegar
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739196251
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mission, Science, and Race in South Africa written by Keith Snedegar and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost in the Stars is a biographical study of Alexander William Roberts, a Free Church of Scotland missionary educator who in 1883 was posted to the Lovedale Institution at Alice, South Africa. Inspired by the night sky of the southern hemisphere, Roberts became a leading observer of variable stars and an early contributor to the theory of close interacting binary stars. He actively promoted the development of colonial scientific culture and was elected president of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science in 1913. His teaching career at Lovedale fostered a commitment to the interests of his African students and their communities. In 1920 Roberts was appointed to the South African senate to represent “native” Africans; he also served as senior member of the Native Affairs Commission. Despite his liberal instincts he acquiesced to the movement toward racial segregation as advanced in the Natives (Urban Areas) and Native Administration Acts. Roberts nonetheless militated against the erosion of the Cape non-racial franchise rights; he resigned from the Native Affairs Commission just as the all-white parliament was poised to remove Africans from the common voters’ roll. His engagement with the politics of race interfered with Roberts’s astronomical research. Although he published nearly one hundred papers in scientific journals most of his observational data remained unknown until the Boyden Observatory’s Roberts archive was digitized in 2006. His influence as a mission educator also has been little known, although among his pupils were journalist and academic D.D.T. Jabavu, the physician James Moroka, and Swazi king Sobhuza I.

Author : William Beinart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108944817
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scientific Imagination in South Africa written by William Beinart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism. In the eighteenth century, South African plants and animals caught the imagination of visiting Europeans. In the nineteenth century, science became central to imperial conquest, devastating wars, agricultural intensification and the exploitation of rich mineral resources. Scientific work both facilitated, and offered alternatives to, the imposition of segregation and apartheid in the twentieth century. William Beinart and Saul Dubow offer an innovative exploration of science and technology in this complex, divided society. Bridging a range of disciplines from astronomy to zoology, they demonstrate how scientific knowledge shaped South Africa's peculiar path to modernity. In so doing, they examine the work of remarkable individual scientists and institutions, as well as the contributions of leading politicians from Jan Smuts to Thabo Mbeki.

Author : South African Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science written by South African Association for the Advancement of Science and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adam YAMEY
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326617125
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soap to Senate: A German Jew at the dawn of apartheid written by Adam YAMEY and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **A new insight into the genesis of apartheid** Franz Ginsberg left Germany in 1880. He settled in South Africa as an 18-year-old photographer, escaping the restrictions on Jews, only to adopt a homeland with escalating restrictions on 'black' and other

Author : Simon Keable-Elliott
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803133503
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utterly Immoral written by Simon Keable-Elliott and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Keable’s First World War novel Simon Called Peter was published, critics called it ‘offensive’, ‘a libel’ and reeking of ‘drink and lust’. Scott Fitzgerald suggested it was ‘utterly immoral’ and referenced it in The Great Gatsby.

Author : Vineet Thakur
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786614650
Total Pages : 199 pages
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Download or read book South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations written by Vineet Thakur and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers readers an alternative history of the origins of the discipline of International Relations. Conventional, western histories of the discipline point to 1919 as the year of the ‘birth of the discipline’ with two seminal initiatives – setting up of the first Chair of IR at Aberystwyth and the founding of the Institute of International Relations on the side-lines of the Paris Peace Conference. From these events, International Relations is argued to have been established as a path to create peace in the post-War era and facilitated through a scientific study of international affairs. International Relations was therefore, both a field of study and knowledge production and a plan of action. This pathbreaking book challenges these claims by presenting an alternative narrative of International Relations. In this book, we make three interconnected arguments. First, we argue that the natal moment in the founding of IR is not World War I – as is generally believed – but the Anglo Boer War. Second, we argue that the ideas, methods and institutions that led to the making of IR were first thrashed out in South Africa – in Johannesburg, in fact. Finally, this South African genealogy of IR, we show in the book, allows us to properly investigate the emergence of academic IR at the interstices of race, Empire and science.

Author : Jonathan Stadler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030694372
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Secrets and Private Sufferings in the South African AIDS Epidemic written by Jonathan Stadler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of the HIV epidemic in South Africa, and asks why, after more than three decades, it has not normalised. Despite considerable efforts to prevent infection, and ambitious targets set to end the epidemic by 2030, HIV infections are increasing among young women and treatment uptake and adherence have been uneven. Focusing on the years preceding and following treatment access, this book addresses why an end to AIDS may be misplaced optimism. By examining public discourses and private narratives about infection, illness and death, this work reveals the contradictions between the lived experiences of AIDS suffering on the one hand, and biomedical certainties on the other. Based on long-term ethnographic research in rural villages of the South African lowveld, and within HIV prevention interventions in South Africa more generally, this book offers an intimate perspective on the social and cultural responses to the epidemic.

Author : Robert Trent Vinson
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821444050
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Americans Are Coming! written by Robert Trent Vinson and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than half a century before World War II, black South Africans and “American Negroes”—a group that included African Americans and black West Indians—established close institutional and personal relationships that laid the necessary groundwork for the successful South African and American antiapartheid movements. Though African Americans suffered under Jim Crow racial discrimination, oppressed Africans saw African Americans as free people who had risen from slavery to success and were role models and potential liberators. Many African Americans, regarded initially by the South African government as “honorary whites” exempt from segregation, also saw their activities in South Africa as a divinely ordained mission to establish “Africa for Africans,” liberated from European empires. The Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, the largest black-led movement with two million members and supporters in forty-three countries at its height in the early 1920s, was the most anticipated source of liberation. Though these liberation prophecies went unfulfilled, black South Africans continued to view African Americans as inspirational models and as critical partners in the global antiapartheid struggle. The Americans Are Coming! is a rare case study that places African history and American history in a global context and centers Africa in African Diaspora studies.

Author : Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780624088547
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Apartheid written by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and distressing similarities persist. Dr Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh explores the edifice of systemic racial oppression -- the new apartheid -- that continues to thrive, despite or even because of our democratic system.