Hashi Kenneth Tafira

Black Nationalist Thought in South Africa

The Persistence of an Idea of Liberation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thisbook maintains that South Africa, despite the official end of apartheid in1994, remains steeped in the interstices of coloniality. The author looks atthe Black Nationalist thought in South Africa and its genealogy. Colonialmodernity and coloniality of power and their equally sinister accessories, war,murder, rape and genocide have had a lasting impact onto those unfortunateenough to receive such ghastly visitations. Tafira explores a range of topicsincluding youth political movement, the social construction of blackness inAzania, and conceptualizations from the Black Liberation Movement.

Produktdetails

• African Histories and Modernities
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-59087-9
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 629g
• ISBN-13: 9781137590879
• ISBN-10: 1137590874
• Artikelnr.: 44372865

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Tafira is Postdoctoral Fellow at Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University of South Africa. He holds a doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- .1. The Black Nationalist Movement in Azania.- .2. BC and its Fortunes After 1976.- .3. BC in the Postapartheid Era.- .4. Some Considerations in a Youth Political Movement.- .5. Youth Politics, Agency and Subjectivity.- .6. The Social Construction of Blackness in Azania.- .7. The Black Middle Class and Black Struggles.- .8. Culture and History in the Black Struggles for Liberation.- .9. Collaboration, Complicity and "Selling - Out" In South Africa Historiography.- .10. Transference and Re (de) placement and The edge Towards a Postcolonial Conundrum.- .11. The Idea of the Nation in South Africa, 1940 to post 1994: Conceptualisations from the Black Liberation Movement.- .12. Symbols, Symbolism and the New Social Order.- Concluding Remarks.