THE IMPOSSIBLE CONCEPT: SETTLER LIBERALISM, …

1universityof south africaAfrican Historical ReviewVolume 47 | Number 2 | 2015pp. 1 36 DOI: Print ISSN 1753-2523 | Online 1753-2531 Unisa Press THE IMPOSSIBLE CONCEPT: SETTLER LIBERALISM, PAN-AFRICANISM, AND THE LANGUAGE OF NON-RACIALISM*Jon SoskeDepartment of History and Classical StudiesMcGill University and Centre for Indian Studies in Africa University of the article traces the history of four words: non-racial , non-racialism , multi-racial , and multi-racialism . Its main concern is to identify when and how these terms developed a role within British colonial and South African political discourse. At the end of the 1950s, the struggles within the anti-apartheid movement became entangled with a broader discussion across southern and eastern Africa regarding democracy, nationalism, and political representation. In clarifying the significance of this moment, this article reconstructs the earlier history of multi-racial democracy from its formulation in South African liberal circles in the 1930s to its incorporation into British colonial policy following the Second World War.

5 Soske The impossible concept organisations. But it did mean that anti-apartheid formations expressed their visions in a ,

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