ISBN:
9781552669068
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 298 Seiten
DDC:
305.800968
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Protestbewegung
;
Apartheid
;
Kanada
;
Südafrika (Staat)
;
USA
;
Kanada
;
USA
;
Apartheid / South Africa
;
Anti-apartheid movements / Canada
;
Anti-apartheid movements / United States
;
Social movements / Canada
;
Social movements / United States
;
USA
;
Kanada
;
Apartheid
;
Protestbewegung
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"On Building a Social Movement focuses, as its sub-title suggests, on the North American campaign for southern African liberation. It does so by first evoking both the region-wide battle for liberation from racial oppression that emerged in southern Africa between 1960 and 1994 and the world-wide mobilization of support for that regional struggle which emerged alongside it. It then examines in some detail the building of movements in both Canada and the United States designed to contribute to this notable global effort. These movements sought to publicize the positive goals and concrete undertakings of the liberation struggles on the ground in southern Africa while also focusing public attention on the policies of the governments and the corporations in North America that pulled the two countries focused on in this book to the wrong - the racist and exploitative - side of this African contestation. "
Description / Table of Contents:
Concepts: social movements and liberation struggles -- The context of contestation -- Cases: North America, for example -- The fall-out -- Other apartheids -- In it together
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