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The Narrow Ground

Critical Intellectual Work on South Africa Under Apartheid

Pages 30-48 | Published online: 29 Aug 2007

Notes and References

  • McClung , Lee Alfred . 1988 . Sociology for People: Towards a Caring Profession , New York : Syracuse University Press .
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  • Adam , Heribert and Kogila , Moodley . 1986 . South Africa Without Apartheid: Dismantling Racial Domination , 7 – 7 . Cape Town : Maskew Miller Longman .
  • Mathonsi , Elmon Nqabenu . 1988 . Black Matriculation Results: A Mechanism of Social Control , Johannesburg : Skotaville .
  • Beard , TVR . 1972 . “ Background to Student Activities at the University College of Fort Hare ” . In Student Perspectives on South Africa , Edited by: van der Merwe , Hendrick W and Welsh , David . 156 – 156 . Cape Town : David Philip . in
  • Legassick , Martin and Shingler , John . 1968 . “ South Africa ” . In Students and Politics in Developing Nations , Edited by: Emmerson , Donald K . 117 – 117 . New York : Praeger . in
  • Kuper , Leo . 1965 . An African Bourgeoisie: Race, Class, and Politics in South Africa , 165 – 165 . New Haven and London : Yale University Press . On the black ‘universities’ also see: Adam, Kogila. 1971. “Dialectic of Higher Education for the Colonized: The Case of Non-White Universities in South Africa” in Heribert Adam (ed.), South Africa: Sociological Perspectives, Oxford University Press, London, pp197–213; Meyer, Lysle E. 1973. “Oppression or Opportunity: Inside the Black Universities of South Africa”, paper presented to Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Syracuse; Kgware, W M. 1977. “The Role of Black Universities in South Africa” in Hendrick W van der Merwe and David Welsh (eds.), The Future of the University in Southern Africa, David Philip, Cape Town, pp225–36; Balintulo, Marcus Malusi. 1981. “The Black Universities in South Africa” in John Rex (ed.), Apartheid and Social Research, Unesco Press, pp141–59; Gwala, Nkosinathi. 1988. “State Control, Student Politics and the Crisis in Black Universities” in William Cobbett and Robin Cohen (eds.), Popular Struggles in South Africa, James Currey, London, pp163–82.
  • Nkomo , Mokubung O. 1984 . Student Culture and Activisim in Black South African Universities: The Roots of Resistance , Westport : Greenwood .
  • Hirson , Baruch . 1979 . Year of Fire, Year of Ash , 296 – 296 . London : Zed Press .
  • On the disturbances at the University of the North see The Dilemma of a Black University in South Africa Nkondo Gessler M. Ravan Press Johannesburg 1976 Wolfson, J G E. (ed.) 1976. Turmoil at Turfloop, South African Institute of Race Relations, Johannesburg
  • Gerwal , GJ . 1988 . Intellectual Home of the Left? . Die Suid-Afrikaan , : 32 – 34 .
  • Alexander , Neville . 1988 . Intellectual Home of the Left? . Die Suid-Afrikaan , : 35 – 36 .
  • Russell , Margo . 1979 . “ Intellectuals and Academic Apartheid, 1950–1965 ” . In The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa , Edited by: van den Berghe , Pierre L . 136 – 137 . London : Croom Helm . in
  • Murray , BK . 1986 . “ Wits as an ‘Open’ University 1922–1959 ” . In The Role of the University in a Changing Society , 93 – 93 . Johannesburg : University of the Witwatersrand . in perceptions of Wits Report
  • Figures taken from A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa South African Institute of Race Relations Johannesburg 1961 256 256 Survey of Race Relations in South Africa. 1980. South African Institute of Race Relations, Johannesburg, p545
  • Turner , Richard . 1980 . The Eye of the Needle , 137 – 138 . Johannesburg : Ravan Press .
  • “ Perceptions of Wits Report ” . In The Role of the University in a Changing Society , 93 – 93 . Johannesburg : University of the Witwatersrand .
  • Taylor , Rupert . 1988/89 . University of the Witwatersrand Ltd.:Big Business Connections and Influence on the University Council . Perspectives in Education , 10 ( 2 ) : 71 – 76 .
  • George , Mluleki . 1986 . The University and the South African Liberation Struggle , 17 – 18 . Johannesburg : Richard Feetham Memorial Lecture, University of the Witwatersrand .
  • Coovadia , HM . 1986 . “ From Ivory Tower to a People's University ” . In T B Davie Memorial Lecture , 9 – 9 . University of Cape Town .
  • Exum , WH . 1983 . Climbing the Crystal Stair: Values, Affirmative Action and Minority Faculty . Social Problems , 30 ( 4 ) : 383 – 399 .
  • Buthelezi , Qedesizi . 1988 . Strike of the Magic Bird . Frontline Johannesburg , 8 ( 2 ) : 9 – 9 .
  • Coovadia . 1986 . “ From Ivory Tower to a People's University ” . In T B Davie Memorial Lecture , 9 – 9 . University of Cape Town .
  • Pityana , Nyameko . 1981 . “ The Black Consciousness Movement and Social Research ” . In Apartheid and Social Research , Edited by: Rex . 175 – 176 . Unesco Press . in
  • On the African model of a university see Creating the African University: Emerging Issues of the 1970ls Yesufu TM Oxford University Press Ibadan 1973 Mazrui, op cit, pp191–210; Wandira, Asavia. 1978. The African University in Development, Ravan Press, Johannesburg
  • Gerhart , Gail M . 1978 . Black Power in South Africa , 294 – 294 . Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • Brewer , John D . 1986 . After Soweto: An Unfinished Journey , 80 – 80 . Oxford : Clarendon Press .
  • Fatton , Robert Jr. 1986 . Black Consciousness in South Africa: The Dialectics of Ideological Resistance to White Supremacy , 124 – 124 . Albany : State University of New York Press .
  • Gerhart . 1978 . Black Power in South Africa , 311 – 311 . Berkeley : University of California Press .
  • For an analysis of the relationship between theory and practice from a Christian moral standpoint see Motlhabi Mokgethi Challenge to Apartheid Eerdmans Michigan 1988
  • Lodge , Tom . 1987 . State of Exile: The African National Congress of South Africa, 1976–1986 . Third World Quarterly , 19 ( 1 ) : 13 – 13 .
  • Adam , Heribert . 1979 . “ Predicaments and Options of Critical Intellectuals at South African Universities ” . In The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa , Edited by: van den Berghe . 17 – 29 . London : Croom Helm . in
  • In 1965 around 1,500 British academics called for a boycott of all South African universities — Academic Freedom Committees of the University of Cape Town and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg The Open Universities in South Africa and Academic Freedom 1957–1974 Juta Cape Town 1974 41 41
  • Marks , Shula . 1976 . “ South African Studies since World War Two ” . In African Studies since 1945: A Tribute to Basil Davidson , Edited by: Fyfe , Christopher . 186 – 199 . London : Longman . in
  • Wright , Harrison M . 1977 . The Burden of the Present: Liberal-Radical Controversy over South African History , Cape Town : David Philip .
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  • For example see Stanley Greenberg's review of Lipton's Merle Capitalism and Apartheid in Social Dynamics 1987 13 2 78 82 Greenberg argues that Lipton misrepresents the Marxist position
  • In this regard developments with ‘popular history’ are important, see Callinicos Luli The People's Past: Towards Transforming the Present Critical Arts 1986 4 2 21 39 1989, “Intellectuals, Popular History and Worker Education”, Perspectives in Education, Vol 11 No 1, pp51–64
  • Rex , John . “ Introduction ” . In Apartheid and Social Research , Edited by: Rex . 24 – 24 . Unesco Press . in
  • Webster , David and Friedman , Maggie . 1989 . “ Repression and the State of Emergency: June 1987 – March 1989 ” . In South African Review 5 , Edited by: Moss , Glenn and Obery , Ingrid . 16 – 41 . Johannesburg : Ravan Press . in
  • Silver , Louise . 1984 . A Guide to Political Censorship in South Africa, Centre for Applied Legal Studies , Johannesburg : University of the Witwatersrand . Occasional Papers 6
  • Welsh , David . 1975 . Social Research in a Divided Society: The Case of South Africa . Social Dynamics , 1 ( 1 ) : 19 – 30 . Savage, Michael. 1981. “Constraints on, and Functions of, Research in Sociology and Psychology in Contemporary South Africa” in Rex (ed.), op cit, pp45–65.
  • Budlender , Geoff . 1977 . “ The Conservative Bias of South African Universities ” . In Student Perspectives on South Africa , Edited by: van der Merwe and Welsh . 260 – 267 . Cape Town : David Philip . in
  • Hare , A Paul and Savage , Michael . 1979 . Sociology of South Africa . Annual Review of Sociology , 5 : 339 – 339 .
  • It is in this context that in debates over black sociology in the United States it has been argued that “Whites are basically incapable of grasping black realities” Wilson William J The New Black Sociology: Reflections on the ‘Insiders’ and ‘Outsiders’ Controversy Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Blackwell James E Janowitz Morris University of Chicago Press Chicago 1974 324 324 in
  • Wolpe , Harold . 1985 . The Liberation Struggle and Research . Review of African Political Economy , : 78 – 78 .
  • Wolpe , Harold . 1985 . The Liberation Struggle and Research . Review of African Political Economy , : 74 – 75 .
  • For initial attempts to grapple with such issues see Muller Johan Cloete Nico The White Hands: Academic Social Scientists and Forms of Popular Knowledge Production Critical Arts 1986 4 2 1 19 Alexander, Neville. 1987. “Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Social Science in Southern Africa”, in Sow the Wind, Skotaville, Johannesburg, pp126–53
  • Horkheimer , Max . 1972 . Critical Theory , 215 – 215 . New York : The Seabury Press .
  • Touraine , Alain . 1981 . The Voice and the Eye: An Analysis of Social Movements , Cambridge, , Eng : Cambridge University Press . Castells, Manuel. 1983. The City and the Grassroots, University of California Press, Berkeley
  • 1987 . Guardian [UK] , London : Oliver Tambo's Canon John Collins Lecture . May, 29/5/87) and UDF document of National Working Committee, May 1987

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