Apartheid's Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War
- ISBN-10
- 0195079426
- ISBN-13
- 9780195079425
- Category
- Apartheid
- Pages
- 298
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Author
- Thomas Borstelmann
Description
Despite the unsavory racism of Malan's government - Borstelmann shows that Pretoria fomented violence among black groups in the late 1940s, just as it has done recently between the ANC and Inkatha - the U.S. saw South Africa as a dependable and important ally. In addition, America was almost completely dependent on southern Africa for its uranium supply, and was willing to go to great lengths to secure the critical fuel for its nuclear arsenal. Borstelmann also notes that race relations in the segregated U.S. played a role in Washington's policies, with few white Americans greatly disturbed by the establishment of apartheid. As South Africa finally nears an end to almost fifty years of formal apartheid (and as Truman nears canonization, following the recent presidential election), Borstelmann's account comes as a startling reminder of America's early links to Pretoria's racist system
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