Struggle for a Free South Africa

ISBN-13: 9781032684086 / Twarda / 2024 / 118 str.

Opis

This book explores anti-apartheid movements on university and college campuses across Africa and the US in 1970s and 1980s. It shows campus anti-apartheid movements, universal problems, and a range of institutions.

Spis treści

Introduction: Anti-Apartheid Movements on Campus: Personal, Political, and Historical 1. ‘Until the people govern’: the Black students’ movement at Rhodes University in the 1980s 2. Anti-apartheid activism in Ghana’s universities, 1960s-1980s 3. ‘Their fight was our fight’: a brief exploration of the contribution of Nigerian universities to the anti-apartheid campaign in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s 4. ‘It is the principle behind the issue which is important and sacred’: Kenyan rugby and the 1980 University of Nairobi campaign to end British contact with apartheid sport 5. Divestment and lemon miringue pie: anti-apartheid movements at the University of Florida in Gaineville 6. Campus activism at Yale: fragmentary memories and reflections on the 1980s 7. The anti-apartheid movement at Grand Valley State College in West Michigan 8. ‘North Texas stopped being a spectator’: anti-apartheid efforts at the University of North Texas 9. ‘A credible undertaking’: apathy and anti-apartheid activism at SUNY Brockport 10. The higher morality: Students for a Democratic Society confronts apartheid 11. Archiving the US Campus anti-apartheid movement

O autorze

Derek Charles Catsam is Professor of History and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas-Permian Basin and is Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is the author of five previous books.