Sandra Laing was branded as black by the apartheid government in South Africa even though she was born to a white couple. In this memoir she recounts her struggles for a decent life, including her early elopement with a black man, her estrangement from her pro-apartheid parents, and the eventual harmony she found in her life once apartheid ended.
A professor of English examines several riots in the United States and South Africa, exploring how riots by white participants are reported differently in the media from the way riots by black participants are.
This volume seeks to provide a comprehensive and concise overview of the nature and causes of prejudice. The importance of a scientific understanding of prejudice, its conceptualization, and the relation of prejudice and behaviour are considered. John Duckitt also contributes a historical analysis of social scientific understandings of prejudice. ...
The literature on 'world cities' has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town's standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual ...
Universally domestic workers have been a marginalized sector of the workforce, increasingly feminized and whose working lives often reflect abuse, degradation and exploitation. Set within the context of post-apartheid South Africa, the author examines the lives of women in domestic service to discover whether the dismantling of apartheid has ...
This title is set in South Africa in the 1990s, a time when an increasing number of young black South Africans are dealing with the violence, the legacy of disrupted schooling and the continued struggle for survival. The story focuses on one boy's struggle for survival as he leaves the violence of his home and joins a gang of children living on ...
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