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Clifton Crais is Professor of History and Director of African Studies at Emory University. He is the author of "Poverty, War and Violence in South Africa"; "Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography" (with Pamela Scully); and "The Politics of Evil: Magic, Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa." Thomas V. McClendon is Professor of History at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He is the author of "White Chief, Black Lords: Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878" and "Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s." Klappentext Clifton Crais is Professor of History and Director of African Studies at Emory University. He is the author of Poverty, War and Violence in South Africa; Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (with Pamela Scully); and The Politics of Evil: Magic, Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa.Thomas V. McClendon is Professor of History at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He is the author of White Chief, Black Lords: Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845–1878 and Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s. "If the authors of this fascinating book wanted to put together a comprehensive, wholly informative and utterly readable guide to understanding and appreciating the history of South Africa, its cultures and its politics, and through it all its people, they have succeeded admirably. Within these pages are captured the voices of South Africans from every era, from every side of the political struggle, witnesses to that long road to freedom. From the earliest voices of colonial times through the struggle against apartheid, and the current struggles to find a genuinely democratic, nonracial, diverse identity - they are all here: the colonizers and the despoilers, the powerful and the powerless, the dissenters and the resisters, the deadly determined and the amazingly courageous, the destroyers of hope and the dreamers of dreams. In these pages, in the well-known speeches as well as the unknown, but delightfully surprising gems, South Africans cannot but completely recognize themselves. This is a book to study, to reflect on, to reference, and to turn to again and again just for the pure joy of reading."--Allan Aubrey Boesak, South African liberation theologian and anti-apartheid activist Zusammenfassung More than eighty absorbing texts and images shed light on South Africa's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and pose challenges to its future....
