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Is Apartheid Really Dead? - Pan-Africanist Working-Class Cultural Critical Perspectives (Paperback)
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Is Apartheid Really Dead? - Pan-Africanist Working-Class Cultural Critical Perspectives (Paperback)
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"Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural
Critical Perspectives" is an engaging and incisive book that
radically challenges the widespread view that post-apartheid
society is a liberated society, specifically for the Black working
class and rural peasant populations. Julian Kunnie's central
contention in this book is that the post-apartheid government was
the product of a serious compromise between the former ruling
white-led Nationalist Party and the African National Congress,
resulting in a continuation of the erstwhile system of monopoly
capitalism and racial privilege, albeit revised by the presence of
a burgeoning Black political and economic elite. The result of this
historic compromise is the persistent subjugation and
impoverishment of the Black working class by the designs of global
capital as under apartheid, this time managed by a Black elite in
collaboration with the powerful white capitalist establishment in
South Africa."Is Apartheid Really Dead?" engages in a comprehensive
analysis of the South African conflict and the negotiated
settlement of apartheid rule, and explores solutions to the
problematic of continued Black oppression and exploitation. Rooted
in a Black Consciousness philosophical framework, unlike most other
works on post-apartheid South Africa, this book provides a
carefully delineated history of the South African struggle from the
pre-colonial era through the present. What is additionally
distinctive is the author's reference to and discussion of the Pan
Africanist movement in the global struggle for Black liberation,
highlighting the aftermath of the 1945 Pan African meeting in
Manchester. The author analyzes the South African struggle within
the context of Pan Africanism and the continent-wide movement to
rid Africa of colonialism's legacy, highlighting the neo-colonial
character of much of Africa's post-independence nations, arguing
that South Africa has followed similar patterns.One of the
attractive qualities of this book is that it discusses correctives
to the perceived situation of neo-colonialism in South Africa, by
delving into issues of gender oppression and the primacy of women's
struggle, working class exploitation and Black worker mobilization,
environmental despoliation and indigenous religio-cultural
responses, and educational disenfranchisement and the need for
radically new structures and policies in educational
transformation. Ultimately, "Is Apartheid Really Dead?" postulates
revolutionary change as a solution, undergirded with all of the
aforementioned ingredients. While anticipating and articulating a
revolutionary socialist vision for post-apartheid South Africa,
this book is tempered by a realistic appraisal of the dynamics of
the global economy and the legacy of colonial oppression and
capitalism in South Africa.
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