Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-94fs2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-18T10:30:28.056Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Continued Impact of Black Consciousness in South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Kogila Moodley
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The idea of Black Consciousness heralded an era of alternative political awareness in the late 1960s. A self-empowering, vibrant, reconstructionist world-view emphasised the potential rôle of black initiatives and responsibility in articulating the power of the powerless. Between 1968–76, the Black Consciousness Movement (B.C.M.), as it became known, was one of the most important developments in South Africa, not only as the result of the self-confident protest and rebellion that it unleashed, but also ‘because of the questions it posed about the nature of oppositional politics in South Africa and its relation to the nature of South African society’.1

Type
Articles
Information
The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 1991 , pp. 237 - 251
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Nolutshungu, Sam C., Changing South Africa: political considerations (Manchester, 1982), pp. 147–8.Google Scholar

2 Stubbs, Aelred (ed.), Steve Biko – I Write What I Like: a selection of his writings (Harmondsworth, 1988 edn.), p. 32.Google Scholar

3 Biko, B. S. (ed.), Black Viewpoint (Durban, 1972).Google Scholar

4 Heller, Mikhail and Nekrich, Aleksandr, Utopia in Power: the history of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the present (New York, 1986), p. 9.Google Scholar

5 Khoapa, B. O. (ed.), Black Review, 1972 (Durban, 1973), p. 64.Google Scholar

6 Adam, Heribert, ‘The Rise of Black Consciousness in South Africa’, in Race (London), 15, 2, 10 1973, p. 155.Google Scholar

7 Stubbs, (ed.), op. cit. p. 39.Google Scholar

8 Frederickson, George M., ‘The Making of Mandela’, in New York Review of Books, 27 09 1991, pp. 26–8.Google Scholar

9 Fatton, Robert, Black Consciousness in South Africa (New York, 1986), p. 66.Google Scholar

10 Gerwel, G. J., ‘Coloured Nationalism’, in T., Sundermeier (ed.), Church and Nationalism in South Africa (Braamfontein, 1975).Google Scholar

11 SASO Newsletter (Durban), 4, 09–10 1972, p. 7.Google Scholar

12 Miles, Robert, Racism (London, 1989), pp. 73–6.Google Scholar

13 Nolutshungu, , op. cit., p. 147.Google Scholar

14 Ibid.

15 Ibid. pp. 155–7.

16 Pityana, Barney, in SASO Newsletter, 2, 1971, pp. 2–3.Google Scholar

17 Motlhabi, Mokgethi, Black Resistance to Apartheid (Johannesburg, 1984), p. 115.Google Scholar

18 Rambally, Asha (ed.), Black Review, 1975–6 (Durban, 1977), p. 143.Google Scholar

19 Ibid. p. 135.

20 Driver, Dorothy, ‘Women, Black Consciousness and the Discovery of Self’, Cape Town, 1990.Google Scholar

21 Sono, Temba, ‘In Search of a Free and New Society’; Minutes of the Proceedings of the Third General Students Council of Saso,St Peter's Seminary, Hammanskraal,2–9 July 1972.Google Scholar

22 Khoapa, loc. cit. pp. 25–6.

23 Ibid. p. 66.

24 Gerhart, Gail, Black Power in South Africa. The Evolution of an Ideology (Berkeley, 1978), pp. 291–2.Google Scholar

25 Seleoane, , ‘The Black Consciousness Movement’, in South Africa Foundation Review (Johannesburg), 12 1989.Google Scholar

26 Baartman, Ernest, ‘Education as an Instrument for Liberation’, in van der Merwe, H. W. (ed.), African Perspectives on South Africa (Cape Town, 1978), pp. 273–8.Google Scholar

27 Adam, Kogila, ‘Dialect of Higher Education for the Colonized: the case of non-white universities in South Africa’, in Adam, Heribert (ed.), South Africa: sociological perspectives (London, 1971), pp. 197–213.Google Scholar

28 Adam, , ‘The Rise of Black Consciousness in South Africa’.Google Scholar

29 Turner, Richard, The Eye of the Needle: toward a participatory democracy in South Africa (New York, 1978).Google Scholar

30 South Africa Foundation News (Johannesburg), 01 1991, p. 3.Google Scholar

31 Sampson, Anthony, cited by Gerhard, op. cit. pp. 318–9.Google Scholar

32 Hirschmann, David, ‘The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa’, in The Journal of Modern African Studies (Cambridge), 28, 1, 03 1990, p. 22.Google Scholar