PREFACE
CHAPTER ONE: The People of the Book
CHAPTER TWO: Apartheid Legacies
CHAPTER THREE: Thandiswa’s Struggles
CHAPTER FOUR: The Coconut Dilemma
CHAPTER FIVE: Forgotten
CHAPTER SIX: The Other Side of the Coloured Divide
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Past Was Wrong, but It Was the Past
CHAPTER EIGHT: Movements and Migrations
CHAPTER NINE: Political Heat
CHAPTER TEN: After Freedom
A NOTE ON TERMS AND METHODS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
WORKS CITED
INDEX
Katherine S. Newman is the James Knapp Dean of the Krieger School
of Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins
University. She is the author of twelve books on poverty, the
working poor, and the consequences of inequality, including The
Accordion Family and The Missing Class. She lives in Baltimore,
Maryland.
Ariane De Lannoy is a senior researcher at the Children's Institute
and lecturer in the Sociology Department of the University of Cape
Town. Her research focuses on youth transitions to adulthood in
South Africa, and she has published on young adults' educational
decision making, youth belonging and citizenship, and youth
violence in a context of poverty. She lives in Cape Town.
“The structural and historical roots of such disparities, and the
social friction and significant emigration they feed, are
succinctly analyzed amid generous excerpts from interviews and
diaries.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Rare are the works which provide us with an insight into the past
through the present.... This is a book that deserves to be read…by
all.”
—Examiner.com
“Anyone interested in the progress of the 'new' South
Africa 20 years into its multiracial democracy need look no
further than After Freedom—a powerful, well-researched, and
thoroughly readable book. Newman and De Lannoy include hard
demographic and economic data but it is their sustained and deeply
personal interviews which prove both fascinating and discomforting.
As in all democracies, including the United States, the pace of
change is maddeningly slow for all too many.”
—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist and author of New News Out of
Africa
“Written with verve and in an often lyrical style this book takes
you into the depths of the everyday life of seven post-apartheid
young South Africans. Set in the extraordinary urban experiment of
contemporary Cape Town, Katherine Newman and Ariane de Lannoy
succeed in bringing to vivid life the complexity of young South
Africans seeking to make a life for themselves. Without being
judgmental they surface and contextualize the intense experiences
of personal failure and success through which young people in South
Africa are going. This book will help you understand what it means
to live in one of the world’s major social laboratories.”
—Professor Crain Soudien, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at University of
Cape Town, South Africa
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