Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa - Brossura

Wylie, Diana

Brossura

ISBN 10: 081392068X ISBN 13: 9780813920689

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2001

Riassunto

An ideology of African ignorance that justified white supremacy grew up in South Africa during the first half of the twentieth century: if Africans were hungry, it was because they didn't know how to feed themselves properly; they were ignorant of "how to live." As a result, growing scientistic impatience with African culture reconciled many white South Africans to the harsh policies of apartheid.

In Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa, Diana Wylie tells the story of the foods Africans ate and the maladies they suffered, while she shows the ways in which doctors and politicians understood and acted upon those experiences in modern African life.

Wylie compares South Africa's food history with that of medieval Europe and modern America, and concludes by presenting some surprising similarities. Starving on a Full Stomach provides both a warning and a provocative framework that forces us to look at the continuing potential for misunderstanding and mismanagement of today's medical and food crises.

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L'autore:

Diana Wylie is Associate Professor of History at Boston University, and the author of A Little God: The Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Chiefdom.

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Book by Wylie Diana

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 081392068X
• ISBN 13: 9780813920689
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 319