1st Edition

Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa From Liberalism to Decolonization

By Teresa Barnes Copyright 2019
183 Pages
by Routledge

183 Pages
by Routledge

183 Pages
by Routledge

South Africa continues to be an object of fascination for people everywhere interested in social justice issues, postcolonial studies and critical race theory as manifested by the enormous worldwide attention given to the #RhodesMustFall movement. In this book, Teresa Barnes examines universities’ complex positioning in the apartheid era and argues that tracing the institutional legacies left by... Read more

Acknowledgements



Introduction: looking into the shadows



1  A.H. Murray: a significant man



2  Liberalism in time and space: apartheid’s kindred spirit



3  Liberalism at work: complicity and the University of Cape Town



4  Fighting a cold war: political trials



5  In deep shadow: espionage and the university community



6  Classrooms of our own: intersectionalities of decolonization



Bibliography



Index

Biography

Teresa Barnes is the Director of  the Center for African Studies and an Associate Professor in the History and Gender and Women’s Studies Departments at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.