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  • Apartheid's Festival

    Contesting South Africa's National Pasts

    par Leslie Witz ...
    Collections series African Systems of Thought
    Apartheid's Festival highlights the conflicts and debates that surrounded the 1952 celebration of the 300th anniversary of the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck and the founding of Cape Town, South Africa. Taking place at the height of the apartheid era, the festival was viewed by many as an opportunity for the government to promote its nationalist, separatist agenda in grand fashion. Leslie Witz's fine ... En savoir plus

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  • Knowing the City

    South African Urban Scholarship from Apartheid to Democracy

    par Paula Meth, Alicia Fortuin, Edgar Pieterse, Jennifer Robinson, Richard Ballard, Ivan Turok, Zarina Patel, Gareth Haysom, Matthiew Maralack, Charlotte Lemanski, Susan Parnell, Caroline Skinner, Leslie Witz, Alex Wafer, Gustav Visser, Sarah Charlton, Bella Knemeyer, Vanessa Watson, Dianne Scott, Philip Harrison, Brij Maharaj, Mfundo Ndovela, Mercy Brown-Luthango ...
    Collections Livre 74 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
    South African cities are marked by the legacies of racialized dispossession that were inscribed in colonial and apartheid spatial patterns. From the late 1970s, the “urban” has been presented as both a key scene for visions of the reform of apartheid and as a site for the potentially revolutionary transformation of South African society. Cities therefore play a pivotal role in shaping the ... En savoir plus

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  • Unsettled History

    Making South African Public Pasts

    par Leslie Witz, Gary Minkley, Ciraj Rassool ...
    Collections series African Perspectives
    Unsettled History examines South African society and the construction and presentation of its public pasts, from Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990 to South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup ®. Conventionally represented as a time of rectifying the silences and distortions of settler history through inclusion and recovery, the focus here instead is on the shifts in processes ... En savoir plus

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  • Museum Times

    Changing Histories in South Africa

    par Leslie Witz ...
    Collections Livre 16 - Museums and Collections
    Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. From the renowned Robben Island Museum to the almost unknown Lwandle ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

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  • After Mandela: The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    par Douglas Foster ...
    The most important historical and journalistic portrait to date of a nation whose destiny will determine the fate of a continent.A brutally honest exposé, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela’s transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South Africa authority ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Africa

    Altered States, Ordinary Miracles

    par Richard Dowden ...
    After a lifetime's close observation of the continent, one of the world's finest Africa correspondents has penned a landmark book on life and death in modern Africa. It takes a guide as observant, experienced, and patient as Richard Dowden to reveal its truths. Dowden combines a novelist's gift for atmosphere with the scholar's grasp of historical change as he spins tales of cults and commerce in ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Unlikely Secret Agent

    par Ronnie Kasrils ...
    Winner of South Africa’s top literary prize, the Alan Paton Award, The Unlikely Secret Agent tells the thrilling true story of one woman’s struggle against the apartheid system. It is 1963. South Africa is in crisis and the white state is under siege. One August 19th, the dreaded Security Police descended on Griggs bookstore in downtown Durban and arrest Eleanor, the white daughter of the manager. ... En savoir plus

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  • Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

    par Colin Grant ...
    Discover the definitive biography of Marcus Garvey'Grant is an accomplished storyteller and writes with an elegance leavened by wit and cynicism that makes this book eminently readable' GuardianAt one time during the first half of the twentieth century, Marcus Garvey was the most famous black man on the planet. Hailed as both the 'black Moses' and merely 'a Negro with a hat', he masterminded the ... En savoir plus

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  • History of Pan-African Revolt

    par C.L.R. James ...
    Collections series The Charles H. Kerr Library
    Originally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance. Robin D.G. Kelley’s substantial introduction contextualizes the work in the history and ferment of the times, and explores its ongoing relevance today.“A History of Pan-African Revolt is one of those rare books that ... En savoir plus

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  • The Man Who Stole Himself

    The Slave Odyssey of Hans Jonathan

    par Gísli Pálsson ...
    The life story of Hans Jonathan, Iceland's first Black citizen.The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free Black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, the stuff of novels.In ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Twentieth-Century South Africa

    par William Beinart ...
    Collections series OPUS
    An innovative examination of the forces - both destructive and dynamic - which have shaped twentieth-century South Africa. This book provides a stimulating introduction to the history of South Africa in the twentieth century. It draws on the rich and lively tradition of radical history writing on that country and, to a greater extent than previous accounts, weaves economic and cultural history ... En savoir plus

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  • The Age of Garvey

    How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

    par Adam Ewing ...
    Collections series America in the World
    A groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyondJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an ... En savoir plus

    $40.69 CAD