Listed in: Black Studies, as BLST-307 | Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, as LJST-206
Formerly listed as: LJST-06
Adam Sitze (Section 01)
(Offered as LJST 206 and BLST 307) The goal of this course will be to understand some of the problems posed for legal studies in the humanities by the emergence of the system of administrative and constitutional law known as apartheid. This system, which was designed to institute “separate development for separate peoples” in South Africa, is widely and rightly regarded to be among the most inhuman régimes of the twentieth century. Yet even and especially today, more than a decade after its formal end in South Africa, apartheid’s social, economic, and epistemic conditions of possibility, as well as the place and function of lawyers, legal discourse, and legal scholars in the resistance to it, remains at best vaguely understood.
This course is designed to remedy this gap. Our inquiry will be at once specific and general. Under what economic and political conditions did apartheid come into being? What legal traditions and practices authorized its codification? What academic disciplines and intellectual formations rendered it intelligible and enabled its theorization? What specific arrangement of juridical institutions, practices, and theories together comprised the apartheid state? What was the place and function of law in the critique of and resistance to apartheid? What new and specific problems did apartheid pose for legal theory?
Limited to 30 students. Fall Semester. Professor Sitze.
Section 01
Tu 01:00 PM - 02:20 PM OCTA 200
Th 01:00 PM - 02:20 PM OCTA 200
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid | Nancy Clark | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| Define and Rule: native as Political Identity | mahmood Mamdani | Amherst Books | TBD | |||
| The Stuggle is My Life | NY Pathfinder Press | Nelson Mandela | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| No Future Without Forgiveness | NY Doubleday | Desmond Tutu | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.