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The terrorist album : apartheid's insurgents, collaborators, and the security police / Jacob Dlamini.

LIBRA DT1757 .D585 2020
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Dlamini, Jacob, 1973- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Anti-apartheid movements--South Africa.
Anti-apartheid movements.
Anti-apartheid activists.
South Africa.
Anti-apartheid activists--South Africa.
Apartheid--South Africa.
Apartheid.
Police--South Africa.
Police.
Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
Post-apartheid era.
Physical Description:
xvi, 375 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2020.
Summary:
"Historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini investigates one of three surviving copies of the "terrorist album," a rogue's gallery of apartheid's political enemies collected over decades by South Africa's security police. From the photos emerges the afterlife of apartheid, as Dlamini tells the story of former insurgents, collaborators, and police"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
From racial types to terrorist types
Apartheid's mismeasure
The uncertain curator
Perusals
The petty state
The embarrassed state
Comrade Rashid
The family bible
The dompas
Capitol drama
Sins of history.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-357) and index.
ISBN:
9780674916555
0674916557
OCLC:
1111388583

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