Mapping my way home : activism, nostalgia, and the downfall of apartheid South Africa /

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Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, South Africa, into a white, Jewish family staunchly opposed to the apartheid regime. In 1967, at the age of twenty-three, no longer able to tolerate the grotesque iniquities and oppression of apartheid, she chose exile and emigrated to the United States. There...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Urdang, Stephanie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Monthly Review Press, 2017.
Temas:
Urdang, Stephanie.
Anti-apartheid activists > South Africa > Biography.
Anti-apartheid movements > South Africa > History.
Journalists > South Africa > Biography.
Apartheid > South Africa > History.
RACE RELATIONS.
Activistes anti-apartheid > Afrique du Sud > Biographies.
Mouvements anti-apartheid > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
Apartheid > Afrique du Sud > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Anti-apartheid activists.
Anti-apartheid movements.
Apartheid.
Journalists.
Race relations.
South Africa > Race relations.
Afrique du Sud > Relations raciales.
South Africa.
Biographies.
History.
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  • "Such a show of power!"
  • "But it makes no sense"
  • "You have to learn to think for yourself"
  • By the stroke of the pen
  • "You can make more of a difference outside"
  • Slowly, haltingly, I became acclimatized
  • Anti-apartheid activist
  • We took our cues from the liberation movements
  • "Well, it's my turn now"
  • "Welcome to Cairo"
  • "Visits like yours build bridges"
  • A bona fide journalist
  • "We can't stop until it's over"
  • Can I take my inner calm back with me?
  • A conscientious observer
  • "I will not have to prove it again"
  • "There's been a coup!"
  • "We have to fight twice"
  • "You will leave from Bissau"
  • "Now I need to believe in myself"
  • "She doesn't know what she fought for"
  • "This very day is South Africa's Pidgiguiti"
  • "I am proud of you"
  • Across the border from home-home
  • "Now we have hope"
  • "I will give my own life if necessary"
  • The ripple effect of the war
  • "Define your terms, comrade!"
  • "I am a visitor to my past"
  • A serious, full-time job in the movement
  • "How much does she weight?"
  • "What about the people?"
  • "Night is turning into day"
  • "Are you planning to return?"
  • No longer the "skunk of the world"
  • "Apartheid is over but the struggle is not"
  • "A deception"
  • Finding home
  • Epilogue: "The fabric of the nation is splitting at the seams."

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