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Most Afrikaners trace their ancestry back to colonists in the mid-17th century and have developed a separate cultural identity, including a distinct language. The majority of English-speaking White South Africans trace their ancestry to the 1820 British, Irish, and Dutch colonists.
Oct 9, 2023 · Sites such as White Sands and Cooper's Ferry have big implications for how the first people arrived in the Americas.
Jun 28, 2024 · Ordinary Whites in Apartheid South Africa is a new book that explores how apartheid monitored and shaped white life, and how all classes of white people were complicit.
- Neil Roos
May 1, 2019 · As a white South African, Sydelle Willow Smith grew up keenly aware of her country’s tangled history of colonialism, race and privilege. Though she was raised in a liberal Jewish family...
May 20, 2021 · Afrikaners predominantly stem from Dutch, French and German immigrants who settled in the Cape, in South Africa, during the second half of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th.
May 4, 2021 · What enslaved Africans had in common, what really ordered their lives, was the experience of enslavement in a world where the notion of white supremacy was ascendant.
Sep 14, 2016 · Black South Africans are featured in his photographs, but their presence is by permission, not by right. Under the 1950 Group Areas Act, nonwhites had to carry documents allowing movement...
