Unit name | Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) |
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Unit code | HIST37010 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Dr. Rob Skinner |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit explores the rise and decline of racial segregation and apartheid in twentieth-century South Africa. Using a range of sources, including visual sources, personal accounts and literature, the unit addresses the ideological foundations of white supremacy and the legislative framework that sustained it, and relates them to the social and cultural changes wrought by the processes of industrialization and urbanization. The unit follows a chronological structure, moving from an assessment of the social, cultural and ideological foundations of racially- segregated society, through to the formation and extension of the policy of apartheid under Afrikaner National Party. Students will assess the rise of popular resistance and opposition to the crisis of legitimacy and attempts to reform the State in the 1980s, and finally to the delicate transition of power in the 1990s.
Aims:
By the end of the unit students should have:
1 x 3500 word essay (50%) and 1 x 2 hour exam (50%)
N. Clark and W. Worger, South Africa: the rise and fall of apartheid (2011)
W.Beinart, Twentieth Century South Africa (2001)
W.Beinart and S.Dubow (eds), Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa (1995)
N.Worden, The Making of Modern South Africa (2000)
T.R.H. Davenport, South Africa: A modern history (2000)
B. Modisane, Blame Me on History (1963)
P. Abrahams, R eturn to Goli (1953)