Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa (Reconsiderations in South African History)

Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Introduction Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and Ideologies of Exclusion......Page 18
Hunger......Page 20
Historical Debates over Cultural Chauvinism and Scientific Hubris......Page 23
Part One Cultural Racism\'s Fertile Ground......Page 36
CHAPTER ONE European Cultural Pride An Evaluation......Page 38
The Drawing of Invidious Distinctions......Page 40
The Historical Foundation of Food Snobbery......Page 43
The Industrial Revolution Removes Hunger from Nature......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 54
CHAPTER TWO Before the Land Was Lost African Food Culture in the Nineteenth Century......Page 56
A Difficult Land......Page 57
Adaptability and Risk Aversion: A Zulu Case Study......Page 59
Conclusion......Page 69
Part Two The Benevolent Father An Embattled Rationale for White Supremacy......Page 74
CHAPTER THREE The Politics of Famine State Paternalism in Rural South Africa, 1910-1948......Page 76
State Paternalism......Page 78
Feeding the Hungry and Vetoing African Initiative: Pondoland, 1912......Page 81
Defending the Hungry: The Lebombo Flats, 1927......Page 90
Politicized Hunger and Bureaucratized Paternalism: The Eastern Cape, 1946......Page 95
Conclusion......Page 106
CHAPTER FOUR Scientific Paternalism Hunger and the Measurement of Urban Poverty, 1910-1948......Page 108
The Idea of the Bread Line......Page 110
The Social Scientists......Page 114
The Failure of Urban Paternalism......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 140
Part Three People without Science A Modern Rationale for White Supremacy......Page 142
CHAPTER FIVE The Threat of \"Race Deterioration\" Nutritional Research in Industrial Context......Page 144
Scurvy......Page 147
Debility......Page 160
Kwashiorkor......Page 171
Conclusion......Page 177
CHAPTER SIX Missionaries of Science The Growth of the Malnutrition Syndrome, 1920-1960......Page 180
Precursor to the Malnutrition Syndrome: Christian Healing at Holy Cross Hospital, 1920-1940......Page 182
The Fiscal and Medical Crises of the 1940s......Page 192
The Rise of the Malnutrition Syndrome and the Biomedical Clinic: Holy Cross Hospital in the 1950s......Page 196
The Malnutrition Syndrome and a Holistic Reaction to Biomedicine at the Valley Trust and Health Center, 1951-1960......Page 203
Care of the Land as Cause and Cure......Page 209
Conclusion......Page 215
Part Four The Triumph of Scientism and Cultural Essentialism......Page 218
CHAPTER SEVEN Denial and Coercion The State Response to the Malnutrition Syndrome, 1940s to 1960s......Page 220
The Entrenched Interests of White Farmers......Page 222
Wartime Idealism and the National Nutrition Council......Page 225
Denial of Responsibility for African Hunger......Page 232
Coercion......Page 242
Conclusion......Page 251
Epilogue The Heritage of Disrespect......Page 254
Abbreviations......Page 262
Introduction......Page 263
1. European Cultural Pride......Page 264
2. Before the Land Was Lost......Page 268
3. The Politics of Famine......Page 270
4. Scientific Paternalism......Page 275
5. The Threat of \"Race Deterioration\"......Page 280
6. Missionaries of Science......Page 287
7. Denial and Coercion......Page 292
Epilogue......Page 296
Manuscript Collections and Archives......Page 298
Selected Official Publications......Page 299
Selected Interviews by Author......Page 300
Selected Articles......Page 301
Selected Books......Page 307
Unpublished Sources......Page 314
Index......Page 316