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War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State

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Description for War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State Paperback. Describes, from the perspective of the young anti-apartheid fighters, the tactics that young local leaders used and how the state retaliated Series: Forms of Living. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1HFMS; 3JJP; JFFJ; JFSJ2; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.

The South African government gave no quarter to young people who joined the struggle against the apartheid state; indeed, it targeted them. Security forces meted out cruel treatment to youth who rebelled, incarcerated even the very young under dreadful conditions, and used torture frequently, sometimes over long periods of time. Little is known, however, from the perspective of young fighters themselves about the efforts they made to sustain the momentum of struggle, how that affected and was affected by their other social bonds, and what they achieved in terms of growth and paid in terms of harm. War in Worcester ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Forms of Living
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823243105
SKU
V9780823243105
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About Pamela Reynolds
Pamela Reynolds is Professor Emerita, Johns Hopkins University, and Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town. Her books include Growing Up in a Divided Society: The Contexts of Childhood in South Africa, Childhood in Crossroads: Cognition and Society in South Africa, Dance Civet Cat: Child Labour in the Zambezi Valley, and Traditional Healers and Childhood in Zimbabwe.

Reviews for War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State
'War in Worcester' presents the record of struggle in a small town and a description of relationships among young men who examine their experiences of activism retrospectively and microscopically.
—African Studies Review
This devastating yet methodologically restrained account of recollection elicited from black South Africans tortured as children or youth under apartheid, and of the failures of the ... Read more

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