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Author Evans, Ivan Thomas, 1957-

Title Bureaucracy and race : native administration in South Africa / Ivan Evans
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 403 pages)
Series Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 53
Perspectives on Southern Africa ; 53.
Contents Part 1 Urban Administration -- Part 2 Administration in the Reserves -- Conclusion: Native Administration and State Formation 277
Summary The common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion is overturned in Ivan Evans's searching study. Without understating the role of violent intervention, Evans shows that apartheid was supported by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy. The Department of Native Affairs (DNA), which had dwindled during the last years of the segregation regime into a neglected outpost staffed by liberals, unexpectedly revived and became the arrogant, authoritarian fortress of apartheid
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-382) and index
Notes English
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Subject Indigenous peoples -- South Africa -- Politics and government
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Affairs & Administration.
HISTORY / Africa / General
Indigenous peoples -- Politics and government
Politics and government
Race relations
SUBJECT South Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125489
South Africa -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494
Subject South Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520918245
052091824X
0585047766
9780585047768
9780520206519
0520206517