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"This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering. The impact of displacement is not simply the product of a racist and ethnocentric vision, but also the myriad of experiences of place, people, and communities, which are sustained in the present through remembering and imagining"--
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Colored people (South Africa), Collective memory, Race relations, HISTORY / Social History, Apartheid, Relocation, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations, Urban Sociology, Forced migration, Oral history, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, History, South africa, historyShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Feb 29, 2012, Palgrave Macmillan
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1349291781 9781349291786
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Oral history, community and displacement: imagining memories in post-apartheid South Africa
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
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0230108903 9780230108905
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Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
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1280680547 9781280680540
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Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa
2012, Palgrave Macmillan
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Part I: Openings * Imagining Memories: Oral Histories of Place and Displacement in Post-Apartheid Cape Town * Part II: Communities and Identities under Apartheid * Remembering Experience, Interpreting Memory: Life Stories from Windermere * Fragile Identities: Memory, Emotion, and Coloured Residents of Windermere * From the 'Peaceful Past' to the 'Violent Present': Memory, Myth and Identity in Guguletu * Disappointed Men: Masculine Myths and Hybrid Identities in Windermere * Part III: Post-Apartheid Imaginings, Sites and Places * Imagining Communities: Memory, Loss and Resilience in Post-Apartheid Cape Town * Sites of Memory in Langa * 'There Your Memory Runs Like a Camera Back': Moving Places and Audio-Visual Oral Histories from Klipfontein Road * 'Others Killed in my Eyes': Rwandan Refugee Testimonies from Cape Town * Part IV: Conclusions without Closure * Beyond 'Healing': Oral History, Trauma and Regeneration * Disappointed Imaginings: Narcissism and Empathy in Post-Apartheid South Africa.
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