Building a White Nation

Katharina Jörder is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer of Art History at Freie Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on histories of photography, African photography, and visual culture.

This book makes a distinctive contribution to the literature on photography and propaganda, African and specifically apartheid visual cultures, and ideas of nation and whiteness. It provides a detailed and multifaceted case study of the information service through from the founding of the apartheid regime through until the mid-1970s. In a context where there is a deepening of photo-historical research on African photographies, by state and non-state actors, this study fits well with current work in the field.Darren Newbury, The University of Brighton

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSNOTES ON TERMINOLOGY AND FIGURESINTRODUCTION White Nation-building and the Myths of Afrikaner Nationalism Propaganda and Photography Researching Propaganda Photography and the State of the ArchivesI. SOUTH AFRICA’S INFORMATION SERVICE I.1. The Information Service and Photography I.2. Publications I.3. Actors in the Propaganda MachineryII. CELEBRATING THE WHITE NATION II.1. The Inauguration of the Voortrekker Monument, 1949 II.2. ‘We Build a Nation’: The Jan van Riebeeck Festival, 1952III. H. F. VERWOERD: ‘MASTER-BUILDER’ OF THE WHITE NATION III.1. From Minister of Native Affairs to Prime Minister III.2. The Pivotal Year 1960 III.3. The Verwoerd Couple III.4. Statesman III.5. Pictorial AfterlifeIV. PROPAGATING SEPARATE DEVELOPMENT IV.1. Bantu Education IV.2. The Health Care System IV.3. Ernest Cole’s House of Bondage, 1967V. PERFORMING THE STATE V.1. The Annual Openings of Parliament V.2. The Transkei Independence Celebrations, 1976VI. THE HENDRIK VERWOERD DAM VI.1. Symbol of Modernity and National Pride VI.2. The Dam in the Regime’s Visual NetworkCONCLUSIONNOTESBIBLIOGRAPHY Archival Sources Literature Periodicals and Newspapers Film Online SourcesEmail Communication and InterviewsILLUSTRATION CREDITS