The Role Of Apartheid In The United States

Almost ironically, the once quasi-anarchist Afrikaners created a national segregationist policy whereas the newly recentralized liberal United States only maintained the legality of localized race laws. As opposed to South Africa, which used the allusion of self-government and isolation to assert political and economic control over indigenous Africans, the American South’s use of paternalism during slavery, especially through the cultural and religious teachings, and spatial proximity led to complicating religious ties and extreme cultural similarity. Thus after Reconstruction ended without blacks achieving full political and economic citizenship, the abolitionist North, influenced by social Darwinism, began to see African-Americans responsible for achieving equality through long-term integration into society. Like the liberal British after the Boer War, gave the south control of the peace by giving local governments the freedom to enforce racial laws. …show more content…
During apartheid in the American South, this led to localization of segregation law, reinforced by national “separate but equal” policies, creating relative political invisibility on a national level because of local laws preventing from African-Americans from having their full citizenship and economic policies like sharecropping that kept African-Americans both physically and economically