"Brown v. Board of Education": A South African Perspective

Autor/in	Alexander, Neville
Titel	"Brown v. Board of Education": A South African Perspective
Quelle	In: Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 105 (2006) 2, S.251-273 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0077-5762
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Racial Segregation; Affirmative Action; Foreign Countries; Racial Discrimination; Blacks; Court Litigation; Social Influences; United States History; Educational History; Racial Bias; Social Problems; Civil Rights; Social Justice; Cross Cultural Studies; Racial Identification; Government Role; World History; School Desegregation; Equal Education; Socioeconomic Status; Cuba; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rassentrennung; Ausland; Racial bias; Rassismus; Black person; Schwarzer; Rechtsstreit; Sozialer Einfluss; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Racial discrimination; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Weltgeschichte; Integrative Schule; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Kuba; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Although this author knew very little about the details of "Brown v. Board of Education" as a legal matter when he read about it as a young second-year student at the University of Cape Town in 1954, the Court's verdict had a direct influence on his political perspectives and on his aspirations as a would-be teacher for the rest of his life. In one way or another, he was inevitably involved in what was ultimately the political struggle of resistance against the racist policies and practices of the ever more self-confident and aggressive apartheid ideologues and bureaucrats of that period. In this chapter, the author focuses on recent developments in South Africa, where they are in certain respects going through a replay of what happened in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s. The author considers the deeper implications for the shaping of social identities and for the cohesion of the society inherent in the implementation of an affirmative action strategy under the social and historical conditions obtaining in post-apartheid South Africa. (Contains 14 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10