HIST B2701 A Social History of Modern South Africa
From the mineral revolution, 1871 to the present. Focus on the special forces that created modern South Africa, with special attention to the creation of the Black working class, the decline/collapse of the Black peasantry, the evolution of the privileged white working class and Afrikaner ideology, the introduction of East Indian and Chinese labor, and the evolution of social movements of women, workers, squatters, and peasants to resist the apartheid system.
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