Julia Tischler completed her PhD at the University of Cologne, Germany. In 2015, she joined the University of Basel as tenure-track Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. She was a fellow at several international research institutes, including the Rachel Carson Center at LMU Munich, Germany (2019), and the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa at the University of Ghana (2022).

• Introduction 1: 'The Kingdom of Mealies': Black Agricultural Progressivism and the Politics of Compromise in the Eastern Cape, 1900-1930 2: Pan-African Agrarianism 3: From 'Progress' to 'Rehabilitation': Liberal Segregation and Agricultural Policy 4: The 'American Negro' and the White Atlantic 5: Domesticating Black Women 6: Rural Reconstruction in the Imperial Orange River Colony 7: White Farmers' Provincial Science: Glen College of Agriculture 8: The State of Planning: Agricultural Scientization and the South African Nation State 9: Eugenic Agriculture and Transnational Networks of Rural Education 10: Women Farmers and Farmers' Wives Conclusion

Julia Tischler's deeply researched history of agricultural progressivism in South Africa is a powerful call for historians to reconsider the rural roots of racial ideas and the white supremacist state-not through well-known stories of Afrikaner nationalism born in conservative rural communities, but rather through the engagement of ambitious and modernizing farmers with transnational networks of scientific agriculture. By examining the aspirations of Black and white progressive farmers, Cultivating Race offers new perspectives on the construction of racial hierarchies and identities within South Africa.