HIST 303(S) History of South Africa*

The course will concentrate on the present Republic of South Africa and will seek to establish the forces that underpinned Apartheid; a system of institutionalized racism that was fortified during the post-Second World War period. Although the economic, social and political foundations of South African racism can be traced to the early days of European settlement in the seventeenth century, it was the industrialization and urbanization of South Africa, ushered in by the "mineral revolution: of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, that eventually propelled South Africa to institutionalized racism. The various attempts at social and political control and the different forms of resistance that these engendered will constitute a significant component of the course. The course will also examine the contest for the control of power and resource, which found expression in the various "nationalisms: that polarized South African society for generations. The concluding part of the course will deal with the dismantling of Apartheid and the evolution of South Africa into a multi-racial, democratic society and sub-regional power in the twenty-first century. No prerequisites or enrollment limit. Group C

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