CRITICAL TIMES, CRITICAL RACE PRESENTS . . .

LIBERAL RACIALISM  AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY 

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DATE: MONDAY, 23RD OCTOBER 2017

TIME: 12:30PM 

VENUE: MTB. ROOM NUMBER TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

PRESENTER: ANJULI WEBSTER

HOST: PROF. ROZENA MAART 

A select group of discussants will be part of the roundtable. 

The roundtable will offer a discussion of Charles Mill’s concept of ‘racial liberalism’ within the historical and political context of early twentieth South African history. It will trace the ways in which White settler liberal intellectual networks and paradigms were assembled and disseminated, both within the academy, and in broader intellectual and research spheres in South Africa. This local schema was interpolated, both intellectually and financially, within a broader transnational network of imperial liberalism and colonial governance, both in Britain and the United States. The work considers the way in which these transnational settler liberal networks depended on an anti-black racial contract, and secured the epistemic foundations of white supremacy in South Africa. It is the author’s contention that the formation of racial liberal praxis in the early twentieth century continues to inform contemporary social scientific praxis, thereby securing the continuity of conquest and settler colonialism in the present.

BIO

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Anjuli is a Flanagan scholar and Masters candidate in the Department of History at the University of Dar es Salaam, where she is currently completing a thesis on the South African Institute of Race relations and racial liberalism in early twentieth century South Africa. Her recently completed Masters in Anthropology traced the intellectual history of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand, focusing on the continuities in settler colonial scholarship across apparent disciplinary and paradigmatic 'ruptures', and the silencing of African philosophy and traditions of thought, from the early 20th century until the present.

 For further information, kindly contact:

Prof. Rozena Maart

maart@ukzn.ac.za