RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

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RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

• THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• THE APARTHEID SYSTEM IN SOUTH AFRICA
• THE HOLOCAUST

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RACISM attitude that subordinates an individual
or a group because of their skin colour or
racial origin

• Individual Institutional

Procedures in all sectors Education Housing Empl
oyment Religion media
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INSTITUTIONAL RACISM

• TO PERPETUATE AND MAINTAIN
• POWER
• OF

one group
another group
over
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How is power obtained from the prevailing group?

• EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION

POWER
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HOW IS EXPLOITATION JUSTIFIED?

• DEHUMANIZING THE OTHER GROUP

INFERIOR
It is right to persecute it (hate, kill, enslave)
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How is racial superiority made credible?

• a science was introduced

Some people are genetically superior to others
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APARTHEID
the state of being apart
First use with a political meaning
National Party won the general elections
1948
Idea transformed in a legislative system
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Two manifestations of apartheid

• 1. Separation of the whites from the blacks in
  the areas inhabited by both
• 2. Introduction of bantustans semi-independent
  territories where the blacks were forced to live

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South African population

• 80 of people were black or of mixed races
• . 20 of people were descendants of former
  British colonisers and afrikaners (the majority
  of the whites)

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South African population

• 80 of people were black or of mixed races
• . 20 of people were descendants of former
  British colonisers and afrikaners (the majority
  of the whites)

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South African population

• 20 of people were descendants of former British
  colonisers and afrikaners (the majority of the
  whites)

• 80 of people were black or of mixed races

in favour of a racist policy
more tolerant
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GRADUAL INTRODUCTION OF APARTHEID

• 1923

First elements of racial segregation
World War 2
Afrikaners influenced by nazism completed the
project of apartheid
Give various racial groups the possibility to
lead their own social development according to
their own traditions
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1956 apartheid was extended to coloured
citizens (Asian included) 1960s 3,5 millions
of black africans were evicted from their homes
and deported to homelands black and white as well
organized protests which were brutally repressed
by the Government forces 1990s President
Frederick Willelm de Klerke began negotioation
tyo end apartheid culminating in multiracial
democratic elections in 1994 1994 elections were
won by African National Congress under Nelson
Mandela END OF APARTHEID IS WIDELY REGARDED AS
ARISING FROM THE 1994 DEMOCRATIC GENERAL
ELECTIONS
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END OF APARTHEID IS WIDELY REGARDED AS ARISING
FROM THE 1994 DEMOCRATIC GENERAL ELECTIONS