In 1952 an Australian journalist cabled from Johannesburg: 'Apartheid is the trigger that has fired racial explosions in South Africa and sent echoes rumbling around the world'. In the outposts of Europe's unstable empires, entrenched racism came under unprecedented assault. 'White Australia', in particular, was challenged as opposition to racial oppression under a white minority regime in South Africa hardened. In both countries the politics of antiracism...
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