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    Victorian Anthropological Theories Reproduced by the Apartheid of South Africa

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    In nine pages this paper discusses how moral degeneracy and contamination concepts of the Victorian era manifested themselves in South African apartheid. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography.

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    unstable to maintain the inequality and fell once Nelson Mandela was elected. Similar ideologies have existed before - in other times and other lands. Clearly, there is a  correlation between South Africa and other instances of separation among peoples. Apartheid in South Africa - a Basic Summary "Apartheid  is the Afrikaans word for the system of systematic, legalized discrimination that existed in South Africa between 1948-1994" (Apartheid, 2002). Theoretically, this system supported difference rather than hierarchy, but  in reality, white were privy to the best jobs, the best housing and voting (Apartheid, 2002). This system became legally dismantled in 1994 when Nelson Mandela was president (Apartheid,  2002). Apartheid in South Africa became the ideology of the National Party after 1948 (South Africas Apartheid Era and the  Transition to Multiracial Democracy, 2002). However, this was the conviction of a few prominent leaders - not representative of the masses of South Africa, and the result was a  very dark era in South African history (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition to Multiracial Democracy, 2002). According to this group, they believed they had happened upon a  formula which would ensure the future of the white minority into the next century (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition to Multiracial Democracy, 2002). Basically, what these  leaders did was to create a permanent white political majority by purging the blacks from the political system, and also by creating "homelands" for Africans "where alternative political provision could  be made for them leading up to self-government and a form of independence" (South Africas Apartheid Era and the Transition to Multiracial Democracy, 2002). This plan was carried out 

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