Describes the forces that unite white and Black South Africans, argues that a peaceful, democratic solution is possible, and discusses political alliances, trade unions, and nationalism in South Africa

South Africa Without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination (Perspectives on Southern Africa)

History

Adam, Heribert

Moodley, Kogila

Africa

University of California Press

Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad relies on stereotypes of violent tribalism and false colonial analogies. Adam and Moodley criticize the personality cult surrounding Nelson Mandela and the accolades accorded F. W. de Klerk. They reject the black-versus-white conflict and substitute sober analysis and strategic pragmatism for the moral outrage that typifies so much writing about South Africa. Believing that the best expression of solidarity emanates from sympathetic but candid criticism, they pose challenging questions for the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela. They give in-depth coverage to political violence, the ANC-South African Communist Party alliance, Inkatha, and other controversial topics as well. The authors do not propose a solution that will guarantee a genuinely democratic South Africa. What they offer is an understanding of the country's social conditions and political constraints, and they sketch options for both a new South Africa and a new post-Cold War foreign policy for the whole of southern Africa. The importance of this book is as immediate as today's headlines.

The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa (Volume 50) (Perspectives on Southern Africa)

Race, Culture, and Politics in Education: A Global Journey From South Africa (Multicultural Education Series)

This autobiographical volume will foster a deeper understanding of racism, discrimination, and inequality in all its subtleties. Through storytelling, framed within the life journey of a South African sociologist of Indian ancestry, this book examines how marginalized communities lived with, fought, and braved racial engineering under apartheid. Moodley shares her experiences of living, studying, and teaching race, ethnicity, identity, nationalism, and critical multiculturalism in five countries: South Africa, the United States, Germany, Egypt, and Canada. Everyday experiences are blended with academic interpretations, so readers gain insights from what is in part memoir and in other parts educational lessons drawn from numerous microexperiences. Subjects range from indentured labor to expropriation, the influences of Gandhi and Mandela, antisemitism in Europe to welfare colonialism in Canada, sectarianism in the Middle East to strategies for combatting bigotry in America. Book Features: <ul> <li>Presents autobiographical material buttressed by strong theoretically driven social science research findings.</li> <li>Connects personal, cultural, and political landscapes to promote a global political literacy.</li> <li>Sketches subjects such as indigeneity (First Nations in Canada), memorialization in Germany (Holocaust), and sectarianism in the Middle East.</li> <li>Assesses the impact of role models and leaders, such as Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.</li> <li>Examines how past injustices can be addressed both symbolically and materially.</li> </ul>

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Teachers' College Press

Product Description This autobiographical volume will foster a deeper understanding of racism, discrimination, and inequality in all its subtleties. Through storytelling, framed within the life journey of a South African sociologist of Indian ancestry, this book examines how marginalized communities lived with, fought, and braved racial engineering under apartheid. Moodley shares her experiences of living, studying, and teaching race, ethnicity, identity, nationalism, and critical multiculturalism in five countries: South Africa, the United States, Germany, Egypt, and Canada. Everyday experiences are blended with academic interpretations, so readers gain insights from what is in part memoir and in other parts educational lessons drawn from numerous microexperiences. Subjects range from indentured labor to expropriation, the influences of Gandhi and Mandela, antisemitism in Europe to welfare colonialism in Canada, sectarianism in the Middle East to strategies for combatting bigotry in America. Book Features:Presents autobiographical material buttressed by strong theoretically driven social science research findings. Connects personal, cultural, and political landscapes to promote a global political literacy.Sketches subjects such as indigeneity (First Nations in Canada), memorialization in Germany (Holocaust), and sectarianism in the Middle East.Assesses the impact of role models and leaders, such as Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi.Examines how past injustices can be addressed both symbolically and materially. Review “Moodley’s life journey and reflections provide invaluable food for thought for teachers involved in current attempts to promote racial inclusiveness and move higher education beyond the legacy of its colonial past.”―Ethnic and Racial Studies“Eminently readable, clearly stated with a strong narrative arc, Race, Culture, and Politics in Education: A Global Journey From South Africa is grounded in the sociology of education that has been Moodley’s life and work, most recently at the University of British Columbia, where she was the first holder of the David Lam Chair of Multicultural Studies. Her teaching style encourages discovery rather than indoctrination, guiding readers to absorb and synthesize new information to help them navigate our modern era where identity is key.”―The Ormsby Review“A tour de force, this fascinating autobiography of a noted South Africa–born sociologist illuminates the lived experience of racial marginalization in a diversity of nations and the pivotal role of family, schools, and politics in promoting resilience. Unique in its global reach, Moodley’s journey gives readers new hope that educating for political literacy might reduce the insidious web of societal racism.”―Rhona S. Weinstein, professor, the Graduate School in Psychology, University of California, Berkeley“I left my reading of Kogila Moodley’s Race, Culture, and Politics in Education not simply with an appreciation of the delicate stitching together of social theory, political commentary, and memory that she achieves here, but with deep admiration of her extraordinary capacity to hold on to her humanness in the midst of a sustained assault on her and her family’s dignity. This book is memorable just for that.”―Crain Soudien, professor and CEO, Human Sciences Research Council“Kogila Moodley combines an unfailing eye for telling details and ironic turns with an insightful social analysis of race and culture in this remarkable journey through historic junctures on three continents. With rewarding excursions into Gandhi’s and Mandela’s contributions to this postcolonial history, alongside heartfelt family portraits, Moodley provides an engaging guide to a political literacy that can help readers navigate and act on the present era.”―John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor, Stanford University“Kogila Moodley’s new book―part personal memoir, part family history, and part scholarly analysis―provides a fresh perspectiv

Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada (Politics History & Social Chan)

On a spectrum of hostility towards migrants, South Africa ranks at the top, Germany in the middle and Canada at the bottom. South African xenophobic violence by impoverished slum dwellers is directed against fellow Africans. “Foreign” Africans are blamed for a high crime rate and most other maladies of an imagined liberation. Why would a society that liberated itself in the name of human rights turn against people who escaped human rights violations or unlivable conditions at home? What happened to the expected African solidarity? Why do former victims become victimizers? With porous borders, South Africa is incapable of upholding the blurred distinction between endangered refugees and economic migrants. Imagined Liberation asks what xenophobic societies can learn from other immigrant societies, such as Canada, that avoided the backlash against multiculturalism in Europe. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley stress an innovative teaching of political literacy that makes citizens aware as to why they hate.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Temple University Press

Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians

The ongoing violence, despair and apparent paralysis in Israel/Palestine resemble a similar gloomy mood in South Africa during the late 1980s. Analogies with the South African case are increasingly applied to Israel/Palestine for two different purposes: to showcase South Africa as a model for a negotiated settlement and to label Israel a 'colonial settler state' that should be confronted with similar strategies (sanctions, boycott) as applied against the apartheid regime. Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley show that both assumptions are problematic, because of the different historical and socio-political contexts. Peace-making resulted in an inclusive democracy in South Africa, while territorial separation in two states is widely hailed as the solution in Israel/Palestine. Adam and Moodley speculate on what would have happened in the Middle East had there been what they call 'a Palestinian Mandela' providing unifying moral and strategic leadership in the ethnic conflict. Unresolved issues in comparative politics and practical questions for conflict resolution can be clarified from the real-life laboratories of Israel and South Africa. A timely, relevant look at the issues of a polarized struggle, Seeking Mandela is an original comparison of South Africa and Israel, as well as an important critique of contemporary peace-making strategies.

UCL Press

This taboo-breaking study of the New South Africa was published byTafelberg in South Africa earlier this year, and now, worldwide by International Books.

Comrades in Business: Post-Liberation Politics in South Africa

van Zyl Slabbert, Frederik

Legal Theory & Systems

International Books

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South Africa Without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination (Perspectives on Southern Africa)

South Africa Without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination (Perspectives on Southern Africa)

The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the New South Africa (Volume 50) (Perspectives on Southern Africa)

Race, Culture, and Politics in Education: A Global Journey From South Africa (Multicultural Education Series)

Race, Culture, and Politics in Education: A Global Journey From South Africa (Multicultural Education Series)

Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada (Politics History & Social Chan)

Imagined Liberation: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Identity in South Africa, Germany, and Canada (Politics History & Social Chan)

Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking Between Israelis and Palestinians

Comrades in Business: Post-Liberation Politics in South Africa