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Informationen zum Autor Daniel R. Magaziner is an assistant professor of history at Yale University. He has published articles in "Radical History Review!" the "International Journal of African Historical Studies!" "History in Africa!" and elsewhere. Klappentext The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography. This span of years bridged the banning and exile of the country's best-known antiapartheid leaders in the early 1960s and the furious protests that erupted after the Soweto uprisings of June 16! 1976. "The Law and the Prophets" is an intellectual history of the resistance movement between 1968 and 1977; it follows the formation! early trials! and ultimate dissolution of the Black Consciousness movement. Magaziner argues that only by understanding how ideas about race! faith! and selfhood developed and were transformed in this period might we begin to understand the dramatic changes that took place. Zusammenfassung “No nation can win a battle without faith,” Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R. Magaziner demonstrates in The Law and the Prophets, the combination of ideological and theological exploration proved a potent force.The 1970s are a decade virtually lost to South African historiography.
