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Fractured Militancy
2022
Overview
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.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Black people-Political activity-South Africa
/ Blacks
/ History
/ HISTORY / Africa / South / General
/ Johannesburg’s impoverished urban Black neighborhoods
/ Political culture-South Africa
/ Racial capitalism in South Africa
/ Social classes-Economic aspects-South Africa
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
ISBN
9781501761782, 1501761781, 1501761811, 9781501761812, 1501761803, 9781501761805
