Review\n'Amidst all this talk of racial capitalism and abolition, there is one thinker we should all be reading: Neville Alexander. He is a revolutionary intellectual for our times and for our planet. For anyone committed to abolishing, not just studying, racial capitalism, this is the book to read.' 
Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'\n'Understanding and dismantling racial capitalism is one of the foremost challenges of our time. Not too often seen by international audiences is the brilliant work of South African revolutionary, anti-Apartheid activist, intellectual, and 10-year political prisoner, Neville Alexander. This amazing collection remedies that.' 
Steven J. Klees, Professor of International Education Policy, University of Maryland\nNeville Alexander is not a household name, but he should be. As a revolutionary public intellectual, activist, and former political prisoner, he is among the most important theorists of racial capitalism to emerge during the struggle against Apartheid. 
Alexander's writings engage with some of the important debates in South Africa over the last 50 years, many of which have international resonance today: from the unresolved national question and the relationship between 'race' and class; to the continuities of racial capitalism in post-apartheid South Africa; the role and purpose of schooling and higher education; and the importance of nation building and multilingualism. An opponent of the neoliberal trajectory embarked upon by the post-apartheid establishment in the 1990s, Alexander was always reflective and humble but never wavered from his own self-description: a non-dogmatic Marxist, pan-Africanist and internationalist. 
This carefully curated collection brings his incredible body of work to an international audience for the first time. It features a comprehensive introduction, a timeline of key events in the life of Alexander, selected articles, speeches, op-eds, book chapters, and a bibliography of his writings.

Against Racial Capitalism: Selected Writings (Black Critique)

Biographies & Memoirs

Alexander, Neville

Historical

Pluto Press

From the most turbulent times in South Africa's history, here are essays and speeches on the relationship between education and the national liberation struggle.

Education and the Struggle for National Liberation in South Africa

History

World

Africa World Pr

Sow the wind: Contemporary speeches

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Skotaville

Education and the struggle for national liberation in South Africa: Essays and speeches

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Skotaville, Educational Division

Compiled by noted South African intellectual and former revolutionary Neville Alexander shortly before his death, the essays gathered in this collection deal with the perceptions and beliefs that both drive and hinder post-apartheid South Africa and, in doing so, raise sometimes-uncomfortable questions about the “new” South Africa’s standing on a global level. The pieces address three of the principle issues that concerned Alexander, namely, the fundamental necessity for South Africans to move away from race consciousness and think along the lines of the far more real and relevant categories of class, gender, and language; the importance of children learning to read, write, and think in their own mother tongue while understanding the need for mastery in an international language; and the struggle for a socialist world of justice and equality for all. These perceptive treatises shed light on the current South Africa, a nation working to reshape and reinvent itself on the international stage after years of political, racial, and social inequality.

Thoughts on the New South Africa

Africa

Jacana Media

Disputing the notion of a 'miracle' transition in South Africa, the author argues that the new South Africa had to happen as it did because of the socio-historical make-up of the country and the leading players involved.He identifies and explains some of the turning points at which critical choices were made by local and international forces. Alexander, a former leading political activist and commentator who spent time on Robben Island, goes beyond what he calls 'the effervescence of parliamentary debate and grandstanding' and explores a range of issues in post-apartheid South Africa including national identity and the rainbow nation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the role and status of language, showing the volatility, the tentativeness,and the fluidity of the evolving situation.

An Ordinary Country: Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa (Approaches to Cultural History)

Berghahn Books

An Ordinary Country: Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa disputes the notion of a "miracle" transition in this country. It argues that the new South Africa had to happen in the way it did because of the specific history of the country and the players involved. While it identifies some of the turning points at which critical choices were made by local and international forces, it shows why, in retrospect, the known decisions were made rather than other possible ones. Alexander explores a range of issues in post-apartheid South Africa including national identity and the rainbow nation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the role and status of language, showing the volatility, the tentativeness, and the fluidity of the situation that is evolving. In looking ahead at probable developments, An Ordinary Country predicts that South Africa will develop, or stagnate, as a "normal" bourgeois democratic social formation for the next generation, at least until the inevitable alternatives to the prevailing system of political economy regain their credibility.

An Ordinary Country: Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa

Univ of Natal Pr

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