Liberation and development : Black Consciousness community programs in South Africa

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Label

Liberation and development : Black Consciousness community programs in South Africa

Title remainder

Black Consciousness community programs in South Africa

Statement of responsibility

Leslie Anne Hadfield

Creator

• Hadfield, Leslie Anne

Author

• Hadfield, Leslie Anne

Subject

• Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa -- History
• Blacks -- Race identity
• Blacks -- South Africa -- Race identity
• Community development
• Community development -- South Africa
• Economic development -- Social aspects
• Economic development -- Social aspects -- South Africa
• HISTORY -- General
• History
• South Africa
• South African Students' Organisation
• South African Students' Organisation -- History
• Black Community Program (South Africa) -- History
• Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

Liberation and Development: Black Consciousness Community Programs in South Africa is an account of the community development programs of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa. It covers the emergence of the movement's ideas and practices in the context of the late 1960s and early 1970s, then analyzes how activists refined their practices, mobilized resources, and influenced people through their work. The book examines this history primarily through the Black Community Programs organization and its three major projects: the yearbook Black Review, the Zanempilo Community Health Center, and the Njwaxa leatherwork factory. As opposed to better-known studies of antipolitical, macroeconomic initiatives, this book shows that people from the so-called global South led development in innovative ways that promised to increase social and political participation. It particularly explores the power that youth, women, and churches had in leading change in a hostile political environment. With this new perspective on a major liberation movement, Hadfield not only causes us to rethink aspects of African history but also offers lessons from the past for African societies still dealing with developmental challenges similar to those faced during apartheid

Member of

• African history and culture

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

305.896/073068

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

HN801.Z9

LC item number

C6374 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

African history and culture