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03097aam a2200445 i 4500 001 A2658618FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 240205t20232023sa a b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023457796 020 $a 177614841X 020 $a 9781776148417 020 $a 1776148401 020 $a 9781776148400 035 $a (OCoLC)1360278566 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d EMU $d YDX $d CLU $d SOI $d LML $d OCLCO $d NUI $d IaU $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a f-sa--- 050 00 $a DT1758 $b .W46 2023 082 04 $a 305.8968 $2 23 100 1 $a weNkosi, uMbuso, $d 1990- $e author. 245 10 $a These potatoes look like humans : $b the contested future of land, home and death in South Africa / $c uMbuso weNkosi. 264 1 $a Johannesburg : $b Wits University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xiv, 172 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "These Potatoes Look Like Humans offers a unique understanding of the intersection of land, labour, dispossession and violence experienced by Black South Africans from the apartheid period to the present. Critiquing the narrow materialist and legalistic arguments about the land question, uMbuso weNkosi recognises that, for most Black South Africans, the meaning of land cannot be separated from one's spiritual and ancestral connection to it. Taking the historic 1959 potato boycott in South Africa as a starting point, weNkosi turns an unflinching gaze on how past and present continue to inform the future. He argues that the violence to which Black farmworkers have been subjected is more than brutal exploitation of cheap labour. It stems from the anxiety white society feels about its oppression of the majority, its claims to land ownership and its fears of the future. The cycle of violence will persist until there is a recognition of the dead and restless spirits of the land and a spiritual return to home for Black people's ancestors. uMbuso weNkosi offers a deeper understanding of the meaning of dispossession, the struggle for land reform and the remedies for social justice in today's South Africa. uMbuso weNkosi is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria" -- $b From the back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Black people $z South Africa $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Agricultural laborers $x Violence against $z Bethal. $z Bethal. 650 0 $a Potato growers $x Violence against $z Bethal. $z Bethal. 650 0 $a Black people $z South Africa $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 650 7 $a Black people $x Social conditions $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00834005 650 7 $a Social conditions $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 0 $a South Africa $x Race relations. 651 0 $a South Africa $x Social conditions. 651 0 $a South Africa $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 651 7 $a South Africa $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240417024913.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A2658618FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search