Drawing from several hundred first-person accounts, most of which are unpublished, Spear reshapes our understanding of Mandela by focusing on this intense but relatively neglected period of escalation in the movement against apartheid. Landau’s book is not a biography, nor is it a history of a militia or an army; rather, it is a riveting story about ordinary civilians debating and acting together in extremis. Contextualizing Mandela and MK’s activities amid anti-colonial change and Black Marxism in the early 1960s, Spear also speaks to today’s transnational anti-racism protests and worldwide struggles against oppression.
CONTRIBUTORS: Landau
EAN: 9781431432356
COUNTRY: South Africa
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WEIGHT: 500 g
HEIGHT: 235 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
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GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
WIDTH: 155 cm
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Politics and government
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