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Unit name |
Race and Resistance in South Africa (Level H Special Subject) |
Unit code |
HIST37010 |
Credit points |
20 |
Level of study |
H/6
|
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
|
Unit director |
Dr. Rob Skinner |
Open unit status |
Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None
|
Co-requisites |
None
|
School/department |
Department of History (Historical Studies) |
Faculty |
Faculty of Arts |
Description including Unit Aims
This unit explores the rise and decline of apartheid in South Africa from 1948 until 1994, with particular focus on the politics of race and strategies of resistance. One of the twentieth century's most inflexible and severe systems of political and social domination, apartheid extended and entrenched forms of racial discrimination that had evolved since the late nineteenth century. Using a range of sources, including visual sources, personal accounts and literature, the unit addresses the ideological foundations of white supremacy and the legislative framework that sustained it, and relates them to the social and cultural changes wrought by the processes of industrialisation and urbanisation.
Aims:
- To place students in direct contact with the current research interests of the academic tutor
- To enable students to explore the issues surrounding the state of research on the rise and decline of racial segregation and apartheid in twentieth-century South Africa
- To develop further students ability to work with primary sources
- To develop further students abilities to integrate both primary and secondary source material into a wider historical analysis
- To develop further students ability to learn independently within a small-group context.
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the unit students should have:
- Developed an in depth understanding of race and resistance in South Africa
- Become more experienced and competent in working with an increasingly specialist range of primary sources
- Become more adept at contributing to and learning from a small-group environment.
Teaching Information
- 10 x weekly 2 hour seminar
- Tutorial feedback on essay
- Access to tutorial consultation with unit tutor in office hours
Assessment Information
1 x 3-400 word essay (50%) and 1 x 2 hour exam (50%)
Reading and References
By the end of the unit students should have:
- L.Thompson, A History of South Africa (1990)
- W.Beinart, Twentieth Century South Africa (2001)
- W.Beinart and S.Dubow (eds), Segregation and Apartheid in Twentieth Century South Africa (1995)
- N.Worden, The Making of Modern South Africa (2000)