AFST 30253 - History of South Africa

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Africana Studies

Description:

This course offers an overview of modern South Africa from the perspective of radical social history, a major intellectual tradition in South African studies. It will begin by identifying processes of dispossession, urbanization and proletarianization set in train by South Africa's mineral revolution. It will then look at the clash between imperial and Boer interests, and the South African war. The Union of South Africa in 1910 represented a re-organization of white power, and the course will turn to the experiences of Union for both black and white, including the emergence of African nationalism and other, culturally-located, forms of resistance. The apartheid state was inaugurated in 1948, and the course will examine the consolidation of the state, how it sought to control black and white citizens and subjects, and the accelerating politics of defiance. There will be particular emphasis on Black Consciousness and its role in the 1976 Soweto revolt. By way of conclusion the course will turn to the culture and politics of resistance in the 1980s, up to the initial dismantling of apartheid in 1990.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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