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Item Details
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BO TSOTSI
THE YOUTH GANGS OF SOWETO, 1935-1976 |
| By: |
Clive Glaser |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£19.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0852556403 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780852556405 |
| Publisher: |
JAMES CURREY |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2000 |
| Series: |
Social History of Africa S. |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
A textured social history of African youth gangs in the Johannesburg/Soweto area from the emergence of a juvenile delinquency crisis in the 1930s through to the student-led uprising of 1976. |
| Synopsis: |
Crime and the closely-related issues of youth culture and unemployment, are among the most important social concerns facing post-apartheid leadership in South Africa. The gang subculture emerged in a context of social deprivation and stunted mobility. Young urban men, out of school and unemployed, coalesced into gangs to create a world with its own rules, style and status structures. Drawing on powerful street and neighbourhood identities, gangs provided young males with companionship, a sense of security, and dignity. The book also depicts the relationship between political organizations and gang constituencies. Gangs were extremely difficult to mobilize on a formal level. Although in some respects politicized, and sympathetic to political campaigns, youth gangs found the respectable methods and intellectual discourse of political organizations alienating. While sensitive to the plight of black urban youth, the ANC recoiled from mobilizing the volatile and potentially violent gangs. Other liberation movements, such as the PAC and the Black Consciousness Movement, made concerted attempts to appeal to the gangs but, ultimately, they were forced to dissociate themselves. North America: Heinemann |
| Illustrations: |
3 Line drawings, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
James Currey |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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