Bureaucrats of Liberation

Southern African and American Lawyers and Clients During the Apartheid Era

AvMyra Ann Houser

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

Bureaucrats of Liberation narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from Namibia, South Africa, and the United States. Within the Project's network, activist lawyers exchanged funding resources, provided logistical support for political trials, and mediated new voting and governmental systems. The Project's history provides a lens into twentieth century geopolitics tied to anti-apartheid, decolonization, Cold War, and movements agitating against white supremacy. In doing so, it pays careful attention to the Project's different eras, beginning with US Executive Branch officials helming the effort and evolving into a space where more activist-oriented attorneys on both sides of the Atlantic drove its mission and politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-03-05
Mått:156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt:552 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical, Connected Histories
Antal sidor:342
Förlag:Leiden University Press
ISBN:9789087283452

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Mer om författaren

Myra Ann Houser is assistant professor of history and coordinator of the BA in Social Justice Studies at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkansas. She has published in Atlantic Studies, Critical Arts, History in Africa, and Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, as well as within edited volumes.

Innehållsförteckning

Abbreviations Notes on Terminology Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: 1960s and Precedents Chapter One: Two Regions, (Nearly) One Legal Tradition Chapter Two: Settings Chapter Three: Beginning(s) of the Project Part Two: 1970s Chapter Four: Cause Lawyering and Litigation in the 1970s Chapter Five: Black Consciousness in South Africa and the US Chapter Six: Supportive Projects: Black Women Against Apartheid Part Three: 1980s Chapter Seven: Prosecuting Frenzies and Deaths in the 1980s Chapter Eight: US Activism and the Free South Africa Movement Chapter Nine: Namibia, Sanctions and Apartheid's Death Grip Part Four: 1990s and Antecedents Chapter Ten: Transitions During the 1990s Epilogue Appendix A: Southern Africa Project-Funded Trials Appendix B: Southern Africa Project Correspondent Attorneys Notes References Index