The Eugenic Underpinnings of Apartheid South Africa, and its Influence on the South African School System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10830171 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carla Turner |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 178 |
| Pages | 75-95 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0495-4548 • E-ISSN: 2171-679X |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/th.2024.7117804 |
| OpenAlex | W4399108904 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
In Apartheid South Africa, eugenic notions formed an underlying justification for the superiority of the white race over Africans, through the works of international eugenicists like Galton and Pearson, and locally through prominent South African eugenicist H. B. Fantham. These ideas are expressed and elaborated upon in Emevwo Biakalo's essay ‘Categories of Cross-Cultural Cognition and the African Condition’. His work serves particularly to highlight that the mind and cognitive processes of Africans were considered very different from their white counterparts, and thus they would require different approaches to education. I demonstrate here how these views served as part of the underlying justification for Apartheid in South Africa, particularly in Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd's insistence on creating separate and distinct educational systems for different races. This eugenic legacy is still visible in South Africa's radically unequal education system to this day
Eugenics · Political science · Educational Philosophies and Pedagogies · Law
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Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family
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The social meaning of modern biology
The meaning of apartheid before 1948
Educational Inequality in Apartheid South Africa
The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |