Making a Voice - African Resistance to Segregation in South Africa

This book focuses on the resistance to segregation in the eastern cape town of Port Elizabeth. It presents a detailed study of men and women in South Africa as they sought to create their own space and voice within the emerging urban areas of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Africa.

List of contents

1 Introduction: Segregation, Labor, Ideology, and the Emergence of African Working and Middle Classes in Port Elizabeth, 2 Race, Class, Segregation, and the 1883 Struggle Over the Removal of the "Native" Strangers' Location, 3 Negotiating Segregation, Political Representation, and African Rights to Land, 4 African Americans, Black South Africans, and the Economics of Pan-Africanism, 5 Public Health, African Women, and the 1901 Black General Workers' Strike, 6 Urban Locations, Political Power, and the "Native" Free State at Korsten, 7 New Brighton, African Protest, and the Evolution of Residential Segregation, 8 Conclusion

About the author

Joyce F. Kirk is Associate Professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Thandeka Joyce F. Kirk.

Summary

This book focuses on the resistance to segregation in the eastern cape town of Port Elizabeth. It presents a detailed study of men and women in South Africa as they sought to create their own space and voice within the emerging urban areas of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Africa.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce F Kirk, Thandeka Joyce F Kirk, Thandeka Joyce F. Kirk, Thandeka Joyce F. Kirk Kirk, Kirk Thandeka Joyce F.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780367316761
• ISBN: 978-0-367-31676-1
• No. of pages: 367
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Republic of South Africa, Politics & government, Politics and government, Regional Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies