Black Power in South Africa: The Evolution of an Ideology, Volume 10

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University of California Press, 1978 - 364 pages
"This book, better than any I have seen, provides an understanding of the politics and ideology of orthodox African nationalism, or Black Power, in South Africa since World War II. . . . from the Youth League of the African Student National Congress (ANC) of the late 1940s to the South African Student Organization (SASO) and the Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s."—Perspective

"Clarifies some of the main issues that have divided the black leadership and rescues the work of some pioneering nationalist theorists. . . . It's an absorbing piece of history."—New York Times

"Informative and well-researched. . . . She ably explores the nuances of the two main movements until 1960 and explains why blacks were so receptive to black consciousness in the late Sixties."—New York Review
 

Contents

Ideological Responses to Inequality
1
The Social Foundations of Black
21
Black Bourgeoisie
32
Realists and Rebels
39
Lembede and the ANC Youth League 19431949
45
The African National Congress in the 1950s
85
The Africanist Movement 19511958
124
The Pan Africanist Congress 19591960
173
Sharpeville and Quiescence
212
Black Consciousness in the 1970s
257
From Black Consciousness to Black Power?
300
APPENDIX
317
INDEX
345
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