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57. See Newel M. Stultz, Afrikaner Politics in South Africa,
1934–1948 (Berkeley, 1974).
58. See Thomas Borstelmann, Apartheid’s Reluctant Uncle: The
United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War (New York,
1993).
59. Quoted in William Henry Vatcher, White Laager: The Rise
of Afrikaner Nationalism (New York, 1965), 160.
60. Saul DuBow, Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa (Cambridge,
Eng., 1995), 261–267. On the tension between biological
racism and cultural pluralism in Afrikaner nationalist thought during
the apartheid era, see also T. Dunbar Moodie, The Rise of Afrikanerdom:
Power, Apartheid, and Afrikaner Civil Religion (Berkeley,
1975), 259–281.
61. DuBow, Scientific Racism, 258. The Tower of Babel legend
also provided the scriptural basis for the banning of interracial dating
at Bob Jones University in South Carolina, which became an
issue in the 2000 political campaign in the United States.
62. Moodie, Afrikanerdom, 249.
63. On the history and changing status of the Coloreds of
South Africa, see Gavin Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall: A History
of South African “Coloured” Politics (New York, 1987), and Fredrickson,
White Supremacy, chap. 6 and passim.
64. The reasons for the seemingly miraculous fall of apartheid
are numerous and complex. For an excellent discussion that
acknowledges the end of the Cold War as one of the factors involved,
see Hermann Giliomee, “Surrender without Defeat: Afrikaners
and the South African ‘Miracle,’” Daedalus 126 (Spring
1997): 113–145, especially 136 and 139. For my own reflections on
the causes of apartheid’s demise, see “The Strange Death of Segregation,”
New York Review of Books, May 6, 1999, 36–38.
EPILOGUE Racism at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
1. Donald L. Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley,
1985), 52.
2. George M. Fredrickson, “Understanding Racism” in The
Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and
Social Movements (Berkeley, 1997), 77–97.
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