Is apartheid really dead? : Pan-Africanist working-class cultural critical perspectives / Julian Kunnie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kunnie, Julian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

South Africa.

Human rights--South Africa.

Human rights.

South Africa--Politics and government--20th century.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xiv, 272 pages : map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.

Contents:

1 A Comprehensive History of the South African Struggle 1

The Indigenous African Struggle Against Colonialism and Black Working-Class Resistance to Industrial Capitalism 3

2 Why Apartheid Changed Its Character in 1990 55

Capitalism Promotes Post-Apartheid 56

Black Resistance: Pressure for Post-Apartheid Rhetoric 62

Post-Apartheid: The Politics and Economics of Survival for the White Capitalist Class 64

Negotiations and Post-Apartheid: A Black-Consciousness Critique 65

3 Neocolonial Political Economy in South Africa 92

Neocolonialist Capitalism and the Black Elite Class 94

Black Working-Class Responses to the Post-Apartheid Economy 104

The "Free Market" Economy: South African Style 111

Land, Housing, and Economic Dependency 114

4 A Pan-Africanist/Black Working-Class Critical Perspective on "Independent" African Political Economies 133

South Africa and "Independent Africa" 133

Some Neocolonial Political Economies in "Independent Africa" 138

5 Pan-Africanism and the Struggle Against Colonialism and Neocolonialism 175

Historical Pan-Africanist Struggle and South Africa: The Pan-African Congress in Manchester, 1945 176

The Obstacle to Pan-African Working-Class Unity: Neocolonialism 179

Revolutionary Pan-Africanism: A Radical Response to Black Oppression 181

The Role of Revolutionary Ideology 185

Black Revolution and the Environment 192

Revolutionary Transformation and Indigenous African Spirituality 194

Language Policy and Education in Post-Apartheid South Africa 203

6 Black Union Praxis and Worker Culture: Revolutionary Prospects and Limitations 215

Revolutionary Limitations and Possibilities of the Black Working Class 216

Creative Cultural Productions and Resistance 229

Future Revolutionary Transformation in Azania and Africa: The Primacy of Women's Struggles 231

The Creative Resourcefulness of Indigenous Black Working-Class Women in Revolutionary Struggle 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813337585

OCLC:

45212239