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Experiencing Sophiatown - Conversations among residents about the past, present and future of a community (Paperback)
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Experiencing Sophiatown - Conversations among residents about the past, present and future of a community (Paperback)
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From the introduction by David Thelen and Karie L. Morgan: The
names Sophiatown and Triomf evoke images of a storied and unique
place in South Africa's history. Here was the world-renowned,
multi-racial birthplace of modern urban African arts like jazz and
poetry. And here too the new National Party government first put
residential apartheid into practice in the 1950s by forcibly
removing some 65 000 Sophiatown residents, bulldozing buildings,
replacing them with cheap housing for whites, especially public
employees, and renaming the place Triomf to proclaim the triumph of
one people over others. But the Sophiatown that has been forming
since desegregation in the 1990s is less a unique place than a
fairly typical place where residents are living out themes often
identified with the 'new' South Africa. Today's residents are
generally familiar with the special pasts of this place - and
sometimes express feelings of anger, pride, and shame about these
pasts - but they more often depict that history as remote from
their lives. For them Sophiatown is a place where people from all
over the country, indeed the world, are trying to find and make
shared experiences and values in order to face the challenges of
life: raising and educating children, earning a living, overcoming
crime or finding ways to make a difference in shaping their
community.
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