SPECIAL INTEREST
AFRICA “Building a New South Africa is quite wonderful. It’s one of the few books I know that can breathe life into that worn word ‘community’ and do it with eloquent specificity.” —Jackson Lears, Board of Governors Professor of History, Rutgers University
“A distinctive and original contribution, this book engages with a community which has changed so much over the past 30 years. It underscores how people, isolated in their homes aspire to turn strangers into neighbors and asks about how to raise and educate children, how to sustain a family life, and how to overcome crime. It records conversations among groups, not individual interviews, and it illustrates how conversation itself can actually bring a community into being.” —Philip Bonner, University of the Witwatersrand
Building a New South Africa
ALSO OF INTEREST:
One Conversation at a Time DAVID THELEN AND KARIE L. MORGAN Once a thriving, multiracial community, the Sophiatown suburb of Johannesburg was home to many famous artists, musicians, and poets. It was also a place where residential apartheid was first put into practice with forced removals, buildings bulldozed, and the construction of new, cheap housing for white public employees. David Thelen and Karie L. Morgan facilitate conversations among today’s Sophiatown residents about how they share spaces, experiences, and values to raise and educate their children, earn a living, overcome crime, and shape their community for the good of all. As residents reflect on the past and the challenges they face in the future, they begin to work together to create a rich, diverse, safe, and welcoming postMandela South Africa. DAVID THELEN is Emeritus Professor of History at Indiana University. KARIE L. MORGAN is a postdoctoral fellow in history at the University of Johannesburg.
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Worldwide Rights History, Africa 204 pages, 87 color illus., 1 maps, 7.5 x 9.25
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