Apartheid, 1948-1994 / Saul Dubow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubow, Saul, author.

Series:

Oxford histories.

Oxford histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

Investments, American--Moral and ethical aspects--South Africa.

Investments, American.

Investments, American--South Africa.

United States--Foreign economic relations--South Africa.

United States.

South Africa--Foreign economic relations--United States.

South Africa.

United States--Foreign relations--South Africa.

South Africa--Foreign relations--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs, he situates apartheid in global as well as local contexts. The overall conception of Apartheid, 1948-1994 is to integrate studies of resistance with the analysis of power, paying attention to the importance of ideas,institutions, and culture. Saul Dubow refamiliarises and defamiliarise apartheid so as to approach South Africa's white supremaci

Contents:

Cover; Apartheid, 1948-1994; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations and Glossary; Chapter 1 The Apartheid Election, 1948; An Electoral Shock?; Apartheid; Afrikaner Nationalism; North and South; Biological Race; Apartheid as Route to Power; Chapter 2 The Consolidation of Apartheid; The First Phase of Implementation; The African Nationalist Response; Campaign against Unjust Laws; The MalaNazis; Global Responses; Strijdom and Baaskap; Verwoerd and Eiselen at Native Affairs; Self-Governing Bantu Homelands; Congress of the People, 1955; Treason Trial

Chapter 3 Sharpeville and its AftermathSharpeville and Langa; Rural Revolts; A State of Emergency; Consolidation; A Revolutionary Moment?; Sabotage and Insurrection; The Rivonia Arrests and Crackdown; Mandela ́s Speech from the Dock; Chapter 4 Apartheid Regnant; Economic Prosperity; Modernization; Bantustans; Influx Control and `Surplus People ́; Education; Opposition from Within; Liberal Voices and Institutions; Chapter 5 The Opposition Destroyed; Into Exile; Liberation Movements in Africa; International Anti-Apartheid; Military Aid; The Islanders; Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Region

The Morogoro Consultative Conference, 1969Political Change within South Africa; Chapter 6 Cracks within the System; Black Consciousness: Ecumenical Origins; Black/Consciousness/Movement; The South African Students ́ Organization (SASO); A Composite Philosophy; The Black People ́s Convention; Crackdown; Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society (Spro-cas); Steve Biko and Rick Turner; New Mobilizing Strategies; Durban, 19734; The SASO-BPC Trial; A Changing External Environment; A Failing Economy; The Soweto Rising, 19767; Whose Responsibility?; The `System ́; The Killing of Biko

Chapter 7 The Limits and Dangers of ReformHiatus; Botha ́s Social Reforms; Total Strategy, Total Onslaught; Neo-apartheid; The National Forum and the United Democratic Front; The 1984 Vaal Uprising and State of Emergency; Militarization of the Conflict; Ethnicized Conflict; The Rubicon, 1985; Sanctions and Disinvestment; Chapter 8 A Balancing of Forces; The Power of Organized Labour; Youth Power; The ANC ́s Consultative Conference, Kabwe 1985; Emergency Renewed; Interregnum?; A New Symmetry; An Expansion of Civic and Legal Space; In Splendid Isolation; Tough Talk; Political Violence

Tipping the BalanceBreakthrough; Chapter 9 Conclusion; Denouement; Negotiations; Apartheid; In a Word; Global or Local?; The Radical Critique; A Protean Ideology and Set of Practices; Fragmented Experience; Historical Inevitability; Endnotes; Chapter1; Chapter2; Chapter3; Chapter4; Chapter5; Chapter6; Chapter7; Chapter8; Chapter9; A Guide to Further Reading; Index

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ISBN:

0-19-955067-0

0-19-100950-4

OCLC:

880439154