Cultivating Race: Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa, c. 1900–1950

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Julia Tischler (Associate Professor of African History, University of Basel)

Cultivating Race

Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa, c. 1900–1950

Julia Tischler (Associate Professor of African History, University of Basel)

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Oxford University Press
20 March 2025

African history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Agriculture & farming

Simultaneous to the rise of industrial capitalism, agriculture - still the mainstay of most human communities around the globe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - underwent dramatic changes. In many countries, including most settler economies, a large-scale, input-heavy, and increasingly mechanized commercial agricultural sector emerged, while scores of struggling rural producers were squeezed off the land. The same period saw the rise of a global 'colour line': increasingly rigid social categorizations based foremost on skin colour.

By considering agricultural progressivism as both a Pan-Africanist and white supremacist movement, Julia Tischler here demonstrates how the agrarian question and the 'colour line' intersected. Taking a uniquely transnational and comparative approach, the book explores these rural transformations through the lens of agricultural education - including agricultural colleges, extension services, children's clubs, and domestic training. In so doing, and by taking South Africa in the segregation period as its central case study - an extreme example of both rapid agrarian change and state-sanctioned racism - the book offers important insights into global questions of rural reform and race politics, addressing all scholars and students who seek to understand the intricate links between race, knowledge, and rural reform in the twentieth century.

By: Julia Tischler (Associate Professor of African History University of Basel)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 704g
ISBN: 9780198917281
ISBN 10: 0198917287
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 20 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1: 'The Kingdom of Mealies': Black Agricultural Progressivism and the Politics of Compromise in the Eastern Cape, 1900-1930 2: Pan-African Agrarianism 3: From 'Progress' to 'Rehabilitation': Liberal Segregation and Agricultural Policy 4: The 'American Negro' and the White Atlantic 5: Domesticating Black Women 6: Rural Reconstruction in the Imperial Orange River Colony 7: White Farmers' Provincial Science: Glen College of Agriculture 8: The State of Planning: Agricultural Scientization and the South African Nation State 9: Eugenic Agriculture and Transnational Networks of Rural Education 10: Women Farmers and Farmers' Wives Conclusion

Julia Tischler completed her PhD at the University of Cologne, Germany. In 2015, she joined the University of Basel as tenure-track Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. She was a fellow at several international research institutes, including the Rachel Carson Center at LMU Munich, Germany (2019), and the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa at the University of Ghana (2022).