Hope and Despair

Paul B. Rich is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of Melbourne. This book is a sequel to his very successful White Power and the Liberal Conscience, originally published by Manchester University Press.

• Science and white supremacy; R.F.A. Hoernle and liberal idealism; Edgar Brookes and "the lie of soul" of segregation; liberals, radicals and black consciousness; liberal realism in South African fiction; Laurens van der Post - the noble savage and the romantic image of Africa; the decline of the idea of civilization.