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Missing
\"Missing is the story of Robert Khalipa, an ANC [African National Congress] cadre living in exile, who is very senior in the Organisation but is ... almost forgotten in Sweden. ... Robert and his family are faced with the challenges of a South Africa that has changed radically from the one he remembers from more than thirty years ago. The government, in his opinion, does not seem to uphold the principles enshrined in the Freedom Charter. There is also conflict within his own family.\"--Page [4] of cover.
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Fractured Militancy
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and
interviews with activists, Fractured
Militancy tells the story of postapartheid
South Africa from the perspective of Johannesburg's impoverished
urban Black neighborhoods. Nearly three decades after
South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy, widespread
protests and xenophobic attacks suggest that not all is well in the
once-celebrated \"rainbow nation.\"
Marcel Paret traces rising protests back to the process of
democratization and racial inclusion. This process dangled the
possibility of change but preserved racial inequality and economic
insecurity, prompting residents to use militant protests to express
their deep sense of betrayal and to demand recognition and
community development. Underscoring remarkable parallels to
movements such as Black Lives Matter in the United States, this
account attests to an ongoing struggle for Black liberation in the
wake of formal racial inclusion.
Rather than unified resistance, however, class struggles within
the process of racial inclusion produced a fractured militancy.
Revealing the complicated truth behind the celebrated \"success\" of
South African democratization, Paret uncovers a society divided by
wealth, urban geography, nationality, employment, and political
views. Fractured Militancy warns of the threat that
capitalism and elite class struggles present to social movements
and racial justice everywhere.
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Can we unlearn racism? : what South Africa teaches us about whiteness
In contemporary South Africa, power no longer maps neatly onto race. While white South Africans continue to enjoy considerable power at the top levels of industry, they have become a demographic minority, politically subordinate to the black South African population. To be white today means having to adjust to a new racial paradigm. In this book, Jacob Boersema argues that this adaptation requires nothing less than unlearning racism: confronting the shame of a racist past, acknowledging privilege, and, to varying degrees, rethinking notions of nationalism. Drawing on more than 150 interviews with a cross-section of white South Africans—representationally diverse in age, class, and gender—Boersema details how they understand their whiteness and depicts the limits and possibilities of individual, and collective, transformation. He reveals that the process of unlearning racism entails dismantling psychological and institutional structures alike, all of which are inflected by emotion and shaped by ideas of culture and power. Can We Unlearn Racism? pursues a question that should be at the forefront of every society's collective consciousness. Theoretically rich and ethnographically empathetic, this book offers valuable insights into the broader sociological process of unlearning, relevant today to communities all around the world.
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South Africa pushed to the limit
Since 1994, the democratic government in South Africa has worked hard at improving the lives of the black majority, yet close to half the population lives in poverty, jobs are scarce, and the country is more unequal than ever. For millions, the colour of people's skin still decides their destiny. In his wide-ranging, incisive and provocative analysis, Hein Marais shows that although the legacies of apartheid and colonialism weigh heavy, many of the strategic choices made since the early 1990s have compounded those handicaps. Marais explains why those choices were made, where they went awry, and why South Africa's vaunted formations of the left -- old and new -- have failed to prevent or alter them. From the real reasons behind President Jacob Zuma's rise and the purging of his predecessor, Thabo Mbeki, to a devastating critique of the country's continuing AIDS crisis, its economic path and its approach to the rights and entitlements of citizens, South Africa Pushed to the Limit presents a riveting benchmark analysis of the incomplete journey beyond apartheid.
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The born frees : writing with the girls of Gugulethu
The author describes her experience setting up a writing group and getting to know the young women of Gugulethu who, despite being born post-apartheid, face many serious struggles but are able to express 1 themselves and experience freedom in their writing.
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Persistence of Race
This is the third and final group of essays emerging from the discussions of the Effects of Race Project at the Stellenbosch Instute for Advanced Study (STIAS) that occurred in 2016 and 2017. The authors consider the biological and social understandings of race, and how new information from both the biological and social sciences is changing our perspecve on the nature of the human condition, including the association of biological and social phenomena with “race\". They also look at global events or movements which influence these processes in South Africa and the costs of a racialised world order to humans and humanity. Phenomena are examined through the lenses of many disciplines: sociology, history, geography, anthropology and writing.
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Nostalgia after Apartheid
In this engaging book, Amber Reed provides a new perspective on
South Africa's democracy by exploring Black residents' nostalgia
for life during apartheid in the rural Eastern Cape. Reed looks at
a surprising phenomenon encountered in the post-apartheid nation:
despite the Department of Education mandating curricula meant to
teach values of civic responsibility and liberal democracy, those
who are actually responsible for teaching this material (and the
students taking it) often resist what they see as the imposition of
\"white\" values. These teachers and students do not see South
African democracy as a type of freedom, but rather as destructive
of their own \"African culture\"-whereas apartheid, at least
ostensibly, allowed for cultural expression in the former rural
homelands. In the Eastern Cape, Reed observes, resistance to
democracy occurs alongside nostalgia for apartheid among the very
citizens who were most disenfranchised by the late racist,
authoritarian regime. Examining a rural town in the former Transkei
homeland and the urban offices of the Sonke Gender Justice Network
in Cape Town, Reed argues that nostalgic memories of a time when
African culture was not under attack, combined with the
socioeconomic failures of the post-apartheid state, set the stage
for the current political ambivalence in South Africa. Beyond
simply being a case study, however, Nostalgia after
Apartheid shows how, in a global context in which nationalism
and authoritarianism continue to rise, the threat posed to
democracy in South Africa has far wider implications for thinking
about enactments of democracy.
Nostalgia after Apartheid offers a unique approach to
understanding how the attempted post-apartheid reforms have failed
rural Black South Africans, and how this failure has led to a
nostalgia for the very conditions that once oppressed them. It will
interest scholars of African studies, postcolonial studies,
anthropology, and education, as well as general readers interested
in South African history and politics.
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