South African Apartheid

Topic: South African Apartheid

1.This is the thesis question I need answered

What was the political factors that led to the declaration of the first Apartheid legislation in 1948?

2.Need two possible thesis statements paragraph constructed

3. (A total of 4 Sources) 1 primary source and 3 secondary sources with a very detail description of what the source is saying. Make sure to include any historical bias the author used,and which historical lens is used in the description of the source with using a quote to back up your choice of lens.

Example this should go in the description of the source Paragraph: The book uses a historic lens, and this is seen by how the authors explain the events of the apartheid era, and why the events happened.“The history of the apartheid regime beginning with the institution of the policy, through to mounting opposition and repression in the 1970s and 1980s” “(Clark et al., 2016).

4.Each possible thesis statement need to have an introduction paragraph to a hypothetical research paper. Both thesis statement and possible constructed introduction paragraph need to talk about the political factors that led to the declaration of the first Apartheid Legislation in 1948.

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Example:

Thesis question:What was the political factors that led to the declaration of the first Apartheidlegislation in 1948?

Possible Introduction paragraph: South African Apartheid was one of the darkest eras of racial persecution the world has ever seen. From 1948 to 1991 the South African government headed by the National Party imparted not only strict racial classifications that divided whites, blacks, Indians, and cloreds anyone who did not fit into one of the previous groups, but also laws that restricted all aspects of black life; this time period is known as apartheid

Thesis statement; Apartheid was a system of legal racial discrimination that formed a society of great suppression for ‘black South Africans.’ The rule largely influenced black South Africans by grudging them of the right to vote or to complain about biased labor practices. As a result, the lives of many individuals were affected socially, economically, and politically. Many years later after the collapse of apartheid, the effects were still witnessed.

(Primary source) Source 1: Global News, G. (2020). Apartheid: The rise and fall of South Africa’s ‘apartness’ laws.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJOU9YYMzpw

Please Provide a detail description of the source:

The link above is a video presented by the global news explaining South Africa’s apartheid laws’ rise and fall. Decades later, racial segregation was known as apartheid, where the government aimed to separate the white minority from the non-white majority.

(Secondary Source) Source 2:;Clark, N. L., &Worger, W. H. (2016). South Africa: The rise and fall of apartheid. Routledge. (The implementation of apartheid captured the attention and incurred the rage of the recently sovereign countries of Asia and Africa).

Please provide a detail description on the source:

As its title suggests, South Arica: ‘The Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ by Nancy L. Clark and William H. Worger is a textbook of the twentieth century.  The book concentrates more on the apartheid places and time and more stress on study than the storyline.

What is an Historical Lens?

While there are any number of lenses a historian may choose, they fall into three basic categories: social lenses, political lenses, and economic lenses. In good historical writing, these lenses will overlap.

Social Lens: This lens focuses on people and their interactions with others. It explores areas of ethnicity, class, and gender. Examining the actions and behaviors of how different groups of people interact with each other—and within their own group—provides historians with a great deal of insight into the past.

This is perhaps the widest and most all-encompassing of the three categories of lenses. Through it, historians have examined all manner of interaction—including German immigrants adjusting to their new home in the nineteenth-century United States, class disputes within African American women’s clubs in the twentieth century, and disagreement among different churches about whether or not to support the gay rights movement. The social lens includes the elite as well as the working class, the rich and the poor, and men, women, and children. It seeks, as do the other lenses, to answer the questions of who were these people, how did they think and what did they think about, and how did their thinking drive their actions and behaviors.

Political Lens: Not focusing solely on politicians and governments, the political lens looks at the relationship of those who have power and those who do not. Historians using a political lens seek answers about the ways in which legislation and law influence the lives of individuals. How do individuals (and groups of individuals) react and respond to these? What methods do they employ to create and/or change the “rules” under which they live?

Political history can be as simple as the recounting of organizing a community to repeal an unpopular law, or as complex as the behind-the-scenes interactions that propelled an individual to the presidency. It can examine the treaties that ended World War I, or explore the “gerrymandering” of congressional districts to maintain one party’s political control of Congress.

Economic Lens: This lens focuses on the local, national, or international economy, all of which are central to the lives of every living person. While it conjures images of corporations and economic systems, the economic lens also focuses on government regulation of businesses, the relationships between capital and labor, business strategies such as marketing or horizontal integration, and the relationships between business and consumers.

Historians use the economic lens in a number of different ways. Often, it is used to explore the growth and development of labor unions, the effect of the loss of small businesses on a community, or the havoc wrought upon farmers by price changes in the international agricultural and commodities markets. It can also be used to examine the effect of redlining on suburbs and ethnic neighborhoods, or even the effect of the Industrial Revolution on artisans and craftsmen. Economic history can provide insight into the wage differences between men and women—and the effect they have on the development of family wealth and status.