Knowledge in the blood : confronting race and the apartheid past / Jonathan D. Jansen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jansen, Jonathan D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Pretoria--Administration.

University of Pretoria.

Afrikaner students--South Africa--Attitudes.

Afrikaner students.

College integration--South Africa.

College integration.

College students, White--South Africa--Attitudes.

College students, White.

Educational change--South Africa.

Educational change.

Post-apartheid era--South Africa.

Post-apartheid era.

Racism in higher education--South Africa.

Racism in higher education.

South Africa--Race relations.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book tells the story of white South African students—how they remember and enact an Apartheid past they were never part of. How is it that young Afrikaners, born at the time of Mandela's release from prison, hold firm views about a past they never lived, rigid ideas about black people, and fatalistic thoughts about the future? Jonathan Jansen, the first black dean of education at the historically white University of Pretoria, was dogged by this question during his tenure, and Knowledge in the Blood seeks to answer it. Jansen offers an intimate look at the effects of social and political change after Apartheid as white students first experience learning and living alongside black students. He reveals the novel role pedagogical interventions played in confronting the past, as well as critical theory's limits in dealing with conflict in a world where formerly clear-cut notions of victims and perpetrators are blurred. While Jansen originally set out simply to convey a story of how white students changed under the leadership of a diverse group of senior academics, Knowledge in the Blood ultimately became an unexpected account of how these students in turn changed him. The impact of this book's unique, wide-ranging insights in dealing with racial and ethnic divisions will be felt far beyond the borders of South Africa.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Glossary of Afrikaans Words, Names, and Phrases""; ""Prologue: Bearing Witness""; ""1. Loss and Change""; ""2. Indirect Knowledge""; ""3. Sure Foundations""; ""4. Bitter Knowledge""; ""5. Kollegas! (Colleagues!)""; ""6. Knowledge in the Blood""; ""7. Mending Broken Lines""; ""8. Meet the Parents""; ""9. Teaching to Disrupt""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-324) and index.

ISBN:

9780804771160

0804771162

OCLC:

923700054