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Respectability and Resistance - A History of Sophiatown (Hardcover, New)
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Respectability and Resistance - A History of Sophiatown (Hardcover, New)
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Respectability and Resistance is the first major history of the
black township of Sophiatown in western Johannesburg. Sophiatown,
together with the neighboring townships of Newclare and Western
Native Township, formed the center of black South African urban
culture and politics in the 1940s and 1950s. Using a wealth of
sources including oral history and much previously unknown archival
material, Goodhew provides a detailed portrait of Sophiatown life.
The widow turning to illegal liquor production to get her children
a good education, the gang of miners who made common cause with the
white police, the Communist Party's rather puritanical views on
pleasure, and a nativity play satirizing state policy - these are
just a few of the diverse strands of life that teemed through
Sophiatown. With a social fabric always liable to fragment, the
people of Sophiatown found a fragile unity through a culture of
working class respectability. This, in turn, crucially fueled
resistance to the state. Al With a social fabric always liable to
fragment, the people of Sophia town found a fragile unity through a
culture of working class respectability. This, in turn, crucially
fueled resistance to the state. Although respectability was
undermined by state repression and popular militancy, it remains of
significance. Goodhew's book joins the ranks of classic books on
the working class in the tradition of E. P. Thompson. As such,
Respectability and Resistance will be of interest to all labor and
social historians.
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