Blood from Your Children: The Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Africthe Colonial Origins of Generational Conflict in South Afr

by Benedict Carton

Book Overview

The young black activists whose rejection of their parents' complacency led to the 1976 Soweto uprising and the eventual demise of apartheid are part of a long tradition of generational conflict in South Africa. In Blood from Your Children, Benedict Carton traces this intense challenge to an extraordinary and pivotal episode a century ago that bitterly divided families along generational lines.

Facing a series of ecological disasters that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813919320
• ISBN13: 9780813919324
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher