Geo2630 fall2013 session17
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Session 17: Power, identity and global landscapes – Part 1 & 2: Introductory concepts & themes; Culture and prejudice October 31, 2013 Norton, W. (2005). Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, and Inequalities. Oxford University Press, Don Mills. Readings : Chapter 7 of Norton – One World Divided; The Mistaken Idea of Race; The Reality of Racism Apartheid Museum South Africa 1) Live Skype presentation & discussion with Marius Brand – professor and anti-apartheid activist in South Africa 2) Handing back of critical review
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Session 17: Power, identity and global landscapes – Part 1 & 2: Introductory concepts & themes; Culture and prejudice
October 31, 2013
Norton, W. (2005). Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, and Inequalities. Oxford University Press, Don Mills.
Readings: Chapter 7 of Norton – One World Divided; The Mistaken Idea of Race; The Reality of Racism
Apartheid Museum,South Africa
1) Live Skype presentation & discussion with Marius Brand – professor and anti-apartheid activist in South Africa
2) Handing back of critical review
Apartheid: An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
•Enforced by the National Party government in South Africa between 1948-1994 (though racial segregation existed long before, beginning in Dutch colonial times)
•bantustans: self-governing homelands allocated by the government for black people
•1990: President de Klerk negotiated the end of Apartheid
•1994: the first multi-racial elections were held Nelson Mandela elected to office, his party: African National Congress
