South Africa Paradoxes In The Place Of Race By Saul Dubow

The article, South Africa: Paradoxes in the Place of Race, written by Saul Dubow is a chapter in the The Oxford Handbook of the History Eugenics which discusses the relationship between the nineteenth century and the contemporary context of eugenics. The handbook discusses eugenics in South East Asia, Iran and South Africa. Dubow’s chapter focuses on the eugenics of South Africa. The article converses the suggestion that eugenics as well as correlated scientific ideas play a significant role in the endorsement of systems such as apartheid and its prototype. The article expands on a broad scheme of racial discrimination as a state program in the earliest decades of the twentieth century. It then goes on to rectify the differences between different