HIST280

Uses primary and secondary sources to examine the past and the historiography of South Africa, focusing on South Africans’ practices of race, nationhood, and class. The class centers on South Africans’ construction and contestation of ideas of race, civilization, segregation, apartheid, non-racialism and Black Consciousness and ends by examining the new South Africa after 1994, and how South Africans continue to struggle with that complex historical legacy.