Waste of a white skin : the Carnegie Corporation and the racial logic of white vulnerability /

A pathbreaking history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism and segregationist philanthropy in the United States and South Africa in the early 20th century, Waste of a White Skin focuses on the American Carnegie Corporation's study of race in South Africa, The Poor White S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany, 1973- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Carnegie Corporation of New York > Influence. Apartheid > South Africa > History > 20th century. White nationalism > South Africa > History > 20th century. Poverty > Political aspects > South Africa. South Africa > Race relations > History > 20th century. United States > Foreign relations > South Africa. South Africa > Foreign relations > United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.

Table of Contents:

Forgeries of history : the Poor White Study
The visual culture of white poverty as the history of South Africa and the United States : repetition, rediscovery, playing with whiteness
The white primitive : whiteness studies, embodiment, invisibility, property
The roots of white poverty : cheap, lazy, inefficient : black
Origin stories about segregationist philanthropy
Carnegie in Africa and the knowledge politics of apartheid : research agendas not taken
I'll give you something to cry about : the intraracial violence of uplift feminism in the Carnegie Poor White Study volume, the mother and daughter of the poor family
Conclusion : race makes nation.