Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past

Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past
ISBN-10
0804761949
ISBN-13
9780804761949
Category
Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Pages
337
Language
English
Published
2009-01-01
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Author
Jonathan D. Jansen

Description

Discusses how white South African students learn and confront their Apartheid past, and explores how this knowledge transforms both the students and the author, the first black dean of an historically white university.

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