Outsmarting Apartheid: An Oral History of South Africa's Cultural and Educational Exchange with the United States, 1960-1999

by Daniel Whitman

For almost forty years, under the watchful eye of the apartheid regime, some three thousand South Africans participated in cultural and educational exchange with the United States. Exposure to American democracy brought hope during a time when social and political change seemed unlikely. In the end the process silently triumphed over the resistance of authorities, and many of the individuals who participated in the program later participated in South...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438451210
• ISBN13: 9781438451213
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.3"