Race and reconciliation : essays from the new South Africa

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Author:

Herwitz, Daniel.

ISBN:

9780816641079

9780816641086

Personal Author:

Herwitz, Daniel.

Publication Information:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Public worlds ; v. 11

Series Title:

Public worlds ; v. 11

Contents:

1. The Coat of Many Colors: Truth and Reconciliation -- 2. Soweto's Taxi, America's Rib -- 3. Afro-Medici: Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance -- 4. Racial and Nonracial States and Estates -- 5. The Genealogy of Modern South African Architecture -- 6. Postmodernists of the South -- 7. Ongoing Struggle at the End of History.

Corporate Subject:

South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Subject Term:

Reconciliation -- Political aspects -- South Africa.

Geographic Term:

South Africa -- Race relations.

South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip044/2003010934.html

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A meditation on the lessons to be learned from South Africa's transformation in the wake of apartheid

Justice, truth, and identity; race, society, and law--all come into dramatic play as South Africa makes the tumultuous transition to a post-apartheid democracy. Seeking the timeless through the timely and trying to find the deeper meaning in the sweep of events, Daniel Herwitz brings the vast resources of the philosophical essay to bear on the new realities of post-apartheid South Africa--from racial identity to truth commissions, from architecture to film and television.

A public intellectual's reflections on public life, Herwitz's essays question how the new South Africa has constructed its concepts of reconciliation and return and how its historical emergence has meant a rethinking, reimagining, reexperiencing, relabeling, and repoliticizing of race. Herwitz's purpose is to give a philosophical reading of society--a society already relying on implicitly philosophical concepts in its social and political agendas. Working through these concepts, testing their relevance for reading society, his book itself becomes a part of the politics of definition and description in the new South Africa.