Black Power in South Africa : The Evolution of an Ideology / Gail M. Gerhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerhart, Gail M., author.

Series:

Perspectives on Southern Africa ; Volume 19.

Perspectives on Southern Africa Series ; Volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa.

Black people--Race identity--South Africa.

Black people.

Racism against Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1979]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"This book, better than any I have seen, provides an understanding of the politics and ideology of orthodox African nationalism, or Black Power, in South Africa since World War II. . . . from the Youth League of the African Student National Congress (ANC) of the late 1940s to the South African Student Organization (SASO) and the Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s."--Perspective "Clarifies some of the main issues that have divided the black leadership and rescues the work of some pioneering nationalist theorists. . . . It's an absorbing piece of history."--New York Times "Informative and well-researched. . . . She ably explores the nuances of the two main movements until 1960 and explains why blacks were so receptive to black consciousness in the late Sixties."--New York Review.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Ideological Responses to Inequality

2. The Social Foundations of Black South African Politics

3. Lembede and the ANC Youth League, 1943-1949

4. The African National Congress in the 1950s

5. The Africanist Movement, 1951-1958

6. The Pan Africanist Congress, 1959-1960

7. Sharpeville and Quiescence

8. Black Consciousness in the 1970s

9. From Black Consciousness to Black Power?

Epilogue

Appendix. Composition of ANC and PAC Leadership by Age and Class, 1957-1960

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520341470

0520341473

OCLC:

1149459908