All 9 Uses of
apartheid
in
The Other Wes Moore
- The Dutch Reformed Church, born in the Netherlands during the Reformation, had spread throughout Europe and around the world, and even eventually became the official religion of apartheid South Africa.†
p. 42.4 *apartheid = a system that unfairly treats people of a different race
- To him this chance to see South Africa less than a decade after the end of apartheid was the perfect preparation for a real understanding of the Rhodes experience and legacy.†
p. 162.5
- We went to school together at the University of Cape Town and studied culture and reconciliation—a subject for which post-apartheid South Africa had become a living laboratory.†
p. 164.1
- The legacy of apartheid was glaringly obvious in South Africa's cities.†
p. 164.6
- Colored was a concept created during the apartheid era to further isolate the races—coloreds received more privileges than blacks did.†
p. 167.4
- The lighter your skin was in apartheid South Africa, the better off you were.†
p. 167.5
- I learned about the music of the apartheid era and how it was the musicians and artists, even more than the politicians and activists, who informed the world about the country's injustices.†
p. 167.5
- I also learned about ubuntu—the Xhosa word for humanity—and the power of authentic leadership as exhibited by giants like Nelson Mandela and a thousand other self-sacrificing visionaries who had managed the unforeseen transition from apartheid to democracy without a bloodbath.†
p. 167.7
- On our third cup of tea, Mama began to tell me about her husband and his role as a freedom fighter during apartheid.†
p. 167.7
Definition:
a system that unfairly treats people of a different race in laws, jobs, and politics