Nazism and racism in South African textbooks
TitelNazism and racism in South African textbooks
Forfatter
Call number940.5318/0544
Objektnummer10566n
UdgivelsesstedDetroit, Michigan, United States
UdgiverWayne State University Press
Udgivelsesår
2019
Pagineringpp350-385
MaterialeArticle
NoterArticle from the book 'Holocaust memory and racism in the post-war world pp350-385
Beskrivelse
Explores how the Nazi past has been taught in South Africa from the 1950s to the 2010s, problematizing the linkage between Nazism and apartheid and showing that connections considered obvious today were for several decades not seen as such. Many apartheid-era textbooks use the language of “race” to explain Nazi actions, while post-apartheid textbooks often associate the Holocaust and apartheid in simplistic and unquestioning ways