Dubbed the "Marikana Massacre," the Marikana miners’ strike was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid; those killed were mineworkers in pursuit of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this account documents and examines the controversial shootings in great detail. In addition, it includes a narrative of the preceding events as well as of the violence itself written from the perspective of the strikers. Unique and revealing, his book tells of police murders, sadness, bravery, and pride.

ISBN-13: 9781431407330

ISBN-10: 143140733X

Language: English

Publisher: Jacana Media

Year: 2012

Pages: 210

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 12:44 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780934143738

ISBN-10: 0934143730

Language: English

Publisher: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

Year: 1995

Pages: 266

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 12:41 p.m.

2016 NAACP Image Award Winner An award-winning journalist reveals a little-known and shameful episode in American history, when an African man was used as a human zoo exhibit—a shocking story of racial prejudice, science, and tragedy in the early years of the twentieth century in the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Devil in the White City, and Medical Apartheid. In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese “pygmy”—a person of petite stature—arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound, 4-foot 11-inch tall man with an orangutan. The attraction became an international sensation, drawing thousands of New Yorkers and commanding headlines from across the nation and Europe. Spectacle explores the circumstances of Ota Benga’s captivity, the international controversy it inspired, and his efforts to adjust to American life. It also reveals why, decades later, the man most responsible for his exploitation would be hailed as his friend and savior, while those who truly fought for Ota have been banished to the shadows of history. Using primary historical documents, Pamela Newkirk traces Ota’s tragic life, from Africa to St. Louis to New York, and finally to Lynchburg, Virginia, where he lived out the remainder of his short life. Illuminating this unimaginable event, Spectacle charts the evolution of science and race relations in New York City during the early years of the twentieth century, exploring this racially fraught era for Africa-Americans and the rising tide of political disenfranchisement and social scorn they endured, forty years after the end of the Civil War. Shocking and compelling Spectacle is a masterful work of social history that raises difficult questions about racial prejudice and discrimination that continue to haunt us today.

ISBN-13: 9780062201010

ISBN-10: 0062201018

Language: English

Publisher: HarperCollins

Year: 2015

Pages: 333

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 12:34 p.m.

According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability – even in the most distant places – the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and developing the unstable regions of the world are now imperative. In what has become a truism of the post-Cold War period, security without development is questionable, while development without security is impossible. In this accessible and path-breaking book, Mark Duffield questions this conventional wisdom and lays bare development not as a way of bettering other people but of governing them. He offers a profound critique of the new wave of Western humanitarian and peace interventionism, arguing that rather than bridging the lifechance divide between development and underdevelopment, it maintains and polices it. As part of the defence of an insatiable mass consumer society, those living beyond its borders must be content with self-reliance. With case studies drawn from Mozambique, Ethiopia and Afghanistan, the book provides a critical and historically informed analysis of the NGO movement, humanitarian intervention, sustainable development, human security, coherence, fragile states, migration and the place of racism within development. It is a must-read for all students and scholars of development, humanitarian intervention and security studies as well as anyone concerned with our present predicament.

ISBN-13: 9780745635804

ISBN-10: 0745635806

Language: English

Publisher: Polity Press

Year: 2007

Pages: 266

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 12:31 p.m.

The moving last memoir of the outspoken critic of the Nigerian regime and international oil companies he held responsible for the destruction of his homeland-who lost his life in the campaign for the basic rights fo the Ogoni people of Nigeria.

ISBN-13: 9780140259148

ISBN-10: 0140259147

Language: English

Publisher: Penguin Group

Year: 1995

Pages: 237

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 9:25 a.m.

Ahmed Sékou Touré was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who was the first president of Guinea from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France. He would later die in the United States in 1984.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Jihad Publishing Company

Year: 1973

Pages: 40

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 9:19 a.m.

This book presents a thought-provoking examination of the group personality of Europeans, as manifest in their behaviour towards Black people. In the essay "The Psychopathic Racial Personality", Dr Bobby Wright contends that viewing white behaviour towards non-whites as psychopathic provides a new lens through which to analyse and combat the actions and aims of Europeans. The essay "Black Suicide: Lynching by Any Other Name" positions the phenomenon of Black suicide within the context of centuries of white genocide. In other essays Wright discusses ways in which to best educate Black children and sheds new light on the evolution of white supremacy.

ISBN-13: 9780883780718

ISBN-10: 0883780712

Language: English

Publisher: THIRD WORLD Press

Year: 1994

Pages: 40

Cataloged: Nov. 25, 2024, 9:16 a.m.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart

Year: 1961

Pages: 301

Cataloged: Nov. 23, 2024, 12:30 p.m.

"This book is composed of transcriptions of radio interviews conducted by the Voice of America with African authors from 1974-1978. A total of 78 interviews were broadcast in the series from 1975-1979. .. The series itself was organized by VOA African Division Special Projects Officer Lee Nichols ... The programs were produced by the Production Branch of the VOA African Division"--Page v.

ISBN-13: None

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Voice of America

Year: 1981

Pages: 302

Cataloged: Nov. 22, 2024, 2:23 p.m.