The Apartheid City and Beyond

The Apartheid City and Beyond
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781134902972
ISBN-13 : 1134902972
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Apartheid City and Beyond by : David M. Smith

This book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era.

Soweto Blues

Soweto Blues
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 0826417531
ISBN-13 : 9780826417534
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Soweto Blues by : Gwen Ansell

Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.

The World

The World
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : 0393326489
ISBN-13 : 9780393326482
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis The World by : Jan Morris

A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and culturesfrom Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles 50years of Morris's finest travel writing.

The Soweto Uprising

The Soweto Uprising
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Publisher : Ohio University Press
Total Pages : 95
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ISBN-10 : 9780821445235
ISBN-13 : 0821445235
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis The Soweto Uprising by : Noor Nieftagodien

The Soweto uprising was a true turning point in South Africa’s history. Even to contemporaries, it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. This compelling book examines both the underlying causes and the immediate factors that led to this watershed event. It looks at the crucial roles of Black Consciousness ideology and nascent school-based organizations in shaping the character and form of the revolt. What began as a peaceful and coordinated demonstration rapidly turned into a violent protest when police opened fire on students. This short history explains the uprising and its aftermath from the perspective of its main participants, the youth, by drawing on a rich body of oral histories.

Class in Soweto

Class in Soweto
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Publisher : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1869142209
ISBN-13 : 9781869142209
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Class in Soweto by : Peter Alexander

Soweto, South Africa's most populous and politically important township, is in many ways the microcosm of the country's stratification of extremes. This study offers an in-depth look at the phenomenon of class and its ramifications from the point of view of urban South Africa, using an analysis of more than 2000 questionnaires and offering insights gleaned over a six-year period.

Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa

Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 862
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105120103101
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa by : United States. Joint Publications Research Service

Dateline Soweto

Dateline Soweto
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9780520915695
ISBN-13 : 0520915690
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Dateline Soweto by : William Finnegan

Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who—fearing government disapproval—may not print the stories these reporters risk their lives to get. William Finnegan revisited several of these reporters during the May 1994 election and describes their post-apartheid working experience in a new preface and epilogue. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995. Dateline Soweto documents the working lives of black South African reporters caught between the mistrust of militant blacks, police harrassment, and white editors who—fearing government disapproval—may not print the stories these reporters risk the

A Movement of Movements

A Movement of Movements
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Publisher : Verso
Total Pages : 312
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1859844685
ISBN-13 : 9781859844687
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis A Movement of Movements by : Walden Bello

Charts the strategic thinking behind the mosaic of movements currently challenging neoliberal globalization.

City Living

City Living
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9780190855369
ISBN-13 : 0190855363
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis City Living by : Quill R. Kukla

City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another. More people live in cities than ever before: more than 50% of the earth's people are urban dwellers. As downtown cores gentrify and globalize, they are becoming more diverse than ever, along lines of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexuality, and age. Meanwhile, we are in the early stages of what seems sure to be a period of intense civil unrest. During such periods, cities generally become the primary sites where tensions and resistance are concentrated, negotiated, and performed. For all of these reasons, understanding cities and contemporary city living is pressing and exciting from almost any disciplinary and political perspective. Quill R Kukla offers the first systematic philosophical investigation of the nature of city life and city dwellers. The book draws on empirical and ethnographic work in geography, anthropology, urban planning, and several other disciplines in order to explore the impact that cities have on their dwellers and that dwellers have on their cities. It begins with a philosophical exploration of spatially embodied agency and of the specific forms of agency and spatiality that are distinctive of urban life. It explores how gentrification is enacted and experienced at the level of embodied agency, arguing that gentrifying spaces are contested territories that shape and are shaped by their dwellers. The book then moves to an exploration of repurposed cities, which are cities materially designed to support one sociopolitical order, but in which that order collapsed, leaving new dwellers to use the space in new ways. Through detailed original ethnography of the repurposed cities of Berlin and Johannesburg, Kukla makes the case that in repurposed cities, we can see vividly how material spaces shape and constrain the agency and experience of dwellers, while dwellers creatively shape the spaces they inhabit in accordance with their needs. The book concludes with a reconsideration of the right to the city, asking what would be involved in creating a city that enabled the agency and flourishing of all its diverse inhabitants.

Touch my Blood

Touch my Blood
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Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Total Pages : 232
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781415204382
ISBN-13 : 1415204381
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Touch my Blood by : Fred Khumalo

As a teenager Fred Khumalo greeted his friends with a handshake and the words 'touch my blood'. It implied friendship and trust. The saying became his name. More than that, it became the way he viewed his world. Everything touched Fred Khumalo. Twice he was bewitched. Twice his father - the 'moegoe', the 'country bumpkin' - took him to inyangas to have the 'demons' banished. Twice his mother - the 'city girl' - took him to the doctor to have the 'fevers' cured. When the American Dudes became the fashion, Khumalo dressed up in outlandish style and strutted the streets. 'You had to be brave to be seen in the outfits that we wore. Green, yellow, maroon, powder blue. Outrageous stuff, garish stuff, bright stuff. Earth, Wind and Fire stuff. Michael Jackson (pre-nose job) stuff.' He smoked dagga with con men and criminals, he pickpocketed 'corpses' on Friday night trains. He worked as a gardener in the larney suburbs and drooled over pornographic photographs with his baas's son. He studied journalism and shacked up with whiteys in a commune called Snake Park, for a while the only darkie in a crazy swirl of booze and drugs and sex. And then the bloody fightings that tore apart KwaZulu/Natal in the 1980s touched his life. Sucked him into a place of horror and violence that threatened to destroy him. When a friend died in his arms with the words 'They really got me, Touch My Blood. They really got me,' Khumalo realised that if he was to outlive the madness he had to run. From the journalist and Sunday Times columnist comes a startlingly honest, humorous and poignant autobiography about growing up in a time of laughter and heartache.