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The road to Soweto : resistance and the uprising of 16 June 1976
- Title
- The road to Soweto : resistance and the uprising of 16 June 1976 / Julian Brown.
- Author
- Brown, Julian (Of University of the Witwatersrand)
- Publication
- Oxford : James Currey, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xi, 204 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being "quiescence" following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression of African opposition movements, during which they went underground, this period was marked by experiments in resistance and attempts to develop new forms of politics that prepared the ground for the Uprising. Students at South Africa's segregated universities began to re-organise themselves as a political force; new ideas about race reinvigorated political thought; debates around confrontation shaped the development of new forms of protest. The protest then began to move off university campuses and onto the streets: through the independent actions of workers in Durban, and attempts by students to link their struggles with a broader agenda. These actions made protest public once again, and helped establish the patterns of popular action and state response that would come to shape the events in Soweto on 16 June 1976.
- Subjects
- South Africa
- South Africa > Politics and government > 1961-1978
- Soweto > Aufstand
- South Africa > History > Soweto Uprising, 1976
- Apartheid > South Africa > History
- Soweto Uprising (South Africa : 1976)
- History
- South Africa > Social conditions > 1961-1994
- Anti-apartheid movements > South Africa > History
- 1976
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-196) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1304
- ISBN
- 9781847011411 (hbk.)
- 1847011411 (hbk.)
- 9781431424009
- 1431424005
- LCCN
- 2015509970
- OCLC
- 948793875
- Author
- Brown, Julian (Of University of the Witwatersrand), author.
- Title
- The road to Soweto : resistance and the uprising of 16 June 1976 / Julian Brown.
- Publisher
- Oxford : James Currey, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-196) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1976
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1304