Waste of a White Skin: The Carnegie Corporation and the Racial Logic ofWhite Vulnerability

A pathbreaking history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy in the U.S. and South ...

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The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with ApartheidSouth Africa

Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances ...

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Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961

The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americ...

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Nelson Mandela: South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Revolutionary

Imprisoned for 27 years, Nelson Mandela became a symbol in the fight against the oppression of the black majority by South Africa's ...

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Slave Revolts (Greenwood Guides to Historic Events 1500-1900)

Since the days of antiquity, people have been forced into servitude because of differences in gender, race, class, religion, or level of p...

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South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid

Apartheid was an oppressive and brutal system of racial discrimination that captured and appalled world opinion during the latter half of ...

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The State vs. Nelson Mandela: The Trial that Changed South Africa

On July 11, 1963, a seemingly harmless dry cleaning van drew up outside a rural farm near Johannesburg, South Africa. Within seconds, heav...

4:19 PM

South Africa - The Present as History

In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections sinc...

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Mother to Mother

Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a lif...

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The legacy of Stephen Bantu Biko: Theological challenges

This volume is the outcome of a project, “Reading the classics in context”, conducted by three institutions: Unisa’s Research Institute fo...

9:57 AM

Down Second Avenue by Es'kia Mphahlele and Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African wr...

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Nelson Mandela: An Extraordinary Life

Twentieth Century History Makers: Nelson Mandela offers a fascinating and complete look at one of the 20th century's great leaders and...

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Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend

Christo Brand was a South African farm boy, born into the Afrikaans culture which had created apartheid to persecute black people and clai...

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Behind the Mask: Getting to Grips with Crime and Violence in South Africa

A variety of authors contribute to this book on the causes of crime and violence in South Africa. Based on a public health approach, it pr...

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The Colour of Disease: Syphilis and Racism in South Africa, 1880-1950

Today AIDS dominates the headlines, but a century ago it was fears of syphilis epidemics. This book looks at how the spread of syphilis wa...

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Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945

In this study a South African historian has shaped an extraordinary wealth of detail into the fullest account to date of the evolution of ...

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No Land! No House! No Vote!: Voices from Symphony Way

Early in 2007, hundreds of families living in shacks in Cape Town were moved into houses they had been waiting for since the end of the ap...

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Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400-1948 offers a newly inclusive vision of South Africa's past. Drawing largely fro...

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Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa

An ideology of African ignorance that justified white supremacy grew up in South Africa during the first half of the twentieth century: ...

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The Tongue is Fire: South African Storytellers and Apartheid

This work presents the voices of the South African oral tradition - the historians, the poets, the epic-performers, the myth-makers - docu...

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