Author: Ann Willcox Seidman
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865431515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Apartheid, Militarism and the U.S. Southeast
Author: Ann Willcox Seidman
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865431515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865431515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Apartheid, Militarism and the U.S. Southeast
Author: Ann Willcox Seidman
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN: 9780865431522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN: 9780865431522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Apartheid’s Black Soldiers
Author: Lennart Bolliger
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821447416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
New oral histories from Black Namibian and Angolan troops who fought in apartheid South Africa’s security forces reveal their involvement, and its impact on their lives, to be far more complicated than most historical scholarship has acknowledged. In anticolonial struggles across the African continent, tens of thousands of African soldiers served in the militaries of colonial and settler states. In southern Africa, they often made up the bulk of these militaries and, in some contexts, far outnumbered those who fought in the liberation movements’ armed wings. Despite these soldiers' significant impact on the region’s military and political history, this dimension of southern Africa’s anticolonial struggles has been almost entirely ignored in previous scholarship. Black troops from Namibia and Angola spearheaded apartheid South Africa’s military intervention in their countries’ respective anticolonial war and postindependence civil war. Drawing from oral history interviews and archival sources, Lennart Bolliger challenges the common framing of these wars as struggles of national liberation fought by and for Africans against White colonial and settler-state armies. Focusing on three case studies of predominantly Black units commanded by White officers, Bolliger investigates how and why these soldiers participated in South Africa’s security forces and considers the legacies of that involvement. In tackling these questions, he rejects the common tendency to categorize the soldiers as “collaborators” and “traitors” and reveals the un-national facets of anticolonial struggles. Finally, the book’s unique analysis of apartheid military culture shows how South Africa’s military units were far from monolithic and instead developed distinctive institutional practices, mythologies, and concepts of militarized masculinity.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821447416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
New oral histories from Black Namibian and Angolan troops who fought in apartheid South Africa’s security forces reveal their involvement, and its impact on their lives, to be far more complicated than most historical scholarship has acknowledged. In anticolonial struggles across the African continent, tens of thousands of African soldiers served in the militaries of colonial and settler states. In southern Africa, they often made up the bulk of these militaries and, in some contexts, far outnumbered those who fought in the liberation movements’ armed wings. Despite these soldiers' significant impact on the region’s military and political history, this dimension of southern Africa’s anticolonial struggles has been almost entirely ignored in previous scholarship. Black troops from Namibia and Angola spearheaded apartheid South Africa’s military intervention in their countries’ respective anticolonial war and postindependence civil war. Drawing from oral history interviews and archival sources, Lennart Bolliger challenges the common framing of these wars as struggles of national liberation fought by and for Africans against White colonial and settler-state armies. Focusing on three case studies of predominantly Black units commanded by White officers, Bolliger investigates how and why these soldiers participated in South Africa’s security forces and considers the legacies of that involvement. In tackling these questions, he rejects the common tendency to categorize the soldiers as “collaborators” and “traitors” and reveals the un-national facets of anticolonial struggles. Finally, the book’s unique analysis of apartheid military culture shows how South Africa’s military units were far from monolithic and instead developed distinctive institutional practices, mythologies, and concepts of militarized masculinity.
Imagining Home
Author: Sidney J. Lemelle
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860915850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its “New World” descendants. Combining literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics, Imagining Home offers a fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements. A critical part of the book’s overall project is an examination of the legal, educational and political institutions and structures of domination over Africa and the African diaspora. Class and gender are placed at center stage alongside race in the exploration of how the discourses and practices of Pan-Africanism have been shaped. Other issues raised include the myriad ways in which grassroots religious and cultural movements informed Pan-Africanist political organizations; the role of African, African-American and Caribbean intellectuals in the formation of Pan-African thought—including W.E.B. DuBois, C.L.R. James and Adelaide Casely Hayford; the historical, ideological and institutional connections between African-Americans and South Africans; and the problems and prospects of Pan-Africanism as an emancipatory strategy for black people throughout the Atlantic.
Publisher: Verso
ISBN: 9780860915850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This collection of original essays brilliantly interrogates the often ambivalent place of Africa in the imaginations, cultures and politics of its “New World” descendants. Combining literary analysis, history, biography, cultural studies, critical theory and politics, Imagining Home offers a fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements. A critical part of the book’s overall project is an examination of the legal, educational and political institutions and structures of domination over Africa and the African diaspora. Class and gender are placed at center stage alongside race in the exploration of how the discourses and practices of Pan-Africanism have been shaped. Other issues raised include the myriad ways in which grassroots religious and cultural movements informed Pan-Africanist political organizations; the role of African, African-American and Caribbean intellectuals in the formation of Pan-African thought—including W.E.B. DuBois, C.L.R. James and Adelaide Casely Hayford; the historical, ideological and institutional connections between African-Americans and South Africans; and the problems and prospects of Pan-Africanism as an emancipatory strategy for black people throughout the Atlantic.
American Insurgents
Author: Richard Seymour
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608461416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
From Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
ISBN: 1608461416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
From Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire.
Contesting Apartheid
Author: Donald R. Culverson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042972165X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
This book examines how U.S. citizen groups have been drawn to the issue to develop more comprehensive explanations of American connections to the production and distribution of wealth and poverty in southern Africa and to expand options for transnational citizen activism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042972165X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
This book examines how U.S. citizen groups have been drawn to the issue to develop more comprehensive explanations of American connections to the production and distribution of wealth and poverty in southern Africa and to expand options for transnational citizen activism.
PAIS Bulletin
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1630
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Publisher:
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1630
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From Defence to Development
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 9780889368538
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
From Defence to Development: Redirecting military resources in South Africa
Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 9780889368538
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
From Defence to Development: Redirecting military resources in South Africa
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2132
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2132
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The Structuring of the Southern African Development Coordination Conference
Author: Greg Greenberg
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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