Year of Fire, Year of Ash: The Soweto Schoolchildren's Revolt That Shook Apartheid

ISBN-13: 9781783608966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 366 str.

Baruch Hirson

Opis

Decades after its original publication, Year of Fire, Year of Ash still stands as one of the leading accounts of the 1976-77 Soweto Revolt, one of the most significant acts of resistance in the history of the South African anti-apartheid movement. Written by Baruch Hirson, a South African activist and scholar who was intimately involved in the movement, the book provides an unparalleled insight into the origins and events of the uprising, from its antecedents in the early 1970s to its role in galvanizing the global struggle against apartheid.
Crucially, the book overturned the conventional logic about the uprising by showing that it was not simply a student protest, but a revolt by the wider black working class. As South Africa experiences a new wave of popular revolt, and as new forms of black consciousness arise in movements around the world, this new edition of Year of Fire, Year of Ash, updated with a new introduction, provides a timely reminder of the continued significance of the Soweto revolt to struggles against oppression today.
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Spis treści

Foreword by Shula Marks Nineteen Seventy-Six by Oupa Thando Mthimkulu Introduction PART I: From School Strikes to Black Consciousness 1. The Black Schools: 1799–1954 2. Bantu Education: 1954–1976 3. The University Student Movements: 1960–1969 4. Black Consciousness Politics: 1970–1974 5. Secondary Schools and the African School Movement 6. The Black Consciousness Movement: Ideology and Action PART II: Workers and Students on the Road to Revolt 7. Black Workers Set the Pace 8. The Strike Wave Spreads 9. State Repression and Political Revival: 1974–1976 10. The Soweto Revolt: June 1976 11. The Revolt Takes Shape 12. The Cape Province Explodes 13. New Tactics in the Revolt 14. The Revolt Winds Down PART III: Black Consciousness and the Struggle in S. Africa 15. Anatomy of the Revolt 16. Black Consciousness in South African History