Category: Freedom Movements
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movements, notes. capitalism
class notes. jan 31. freedom movements fr nights, Golden town Mapantsula visual imagery thrown out of the window Themba “John” speaking Afrikaans english had subtitles (also aimed at non-english speaking native audience) 1976 Soweto’s school students boycott Afrikaans language Afrikaans develops not to be understood by masters? but why don’t they speak it then? violence […]
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white supremacy, racism, racialism
in “White Supremacy: a comparative sutyd in american and south african history”, frederickson makes the distinction between white supremacy and racism. first, racism is too ambiguous. second, racism is an essentialistic mode of thought that gives racial attributes to given populations. (frederickson characterizes them as “the fact that populations groups that can be distinguished by […]
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a decommodification agenda by capturing state power?
so after reading Patrick Bond’s Strategies for Social Justice Movements from Southern Africa to the United States fpif.org/papers/0501movements_body.html Bond is thinking about circular state measures that eventually weaken local communities, and talks about fundamental change that doesn’t rely on state power, when he writes: …South Africa’s independent left fully understands the need to transcend national-scale […]
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Class Notes. movements. Introduction
class notes, Freedom Movements January 24, 2005 -SNVC (?) we are reading M.L.King and N.Mandela, not because they are everything that their respective movements represented, but in order to get an initial idea of what the main body of texts “representative” in public discourse of the movements is about. That way it is possible to […]