"Non-racialism in South Africa: the life and times of Neville Alexander is the product of an international conference held in his honour in 2013 at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, as well as more recent exposition of his praxis via an introductory and end chapter (both written in 2015)"--Preface, page v. The DVD-ROM contains 18 hours of video footage taken at the conference. Title on disc: Neville Alexander Commemorative Conference 2013, "The life and times of Neville Alexander." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Non-racialism's politics: reading being human through the life of Neville Alexander / Non-racialism in South Africa: the life and times of Neville Alexander / Crain Soudien. Introduction: Neville Alexander and the struggle for freedom and social justice / Crain Soudien -- The national question. Waiting for October: revisiting the national question / Pallo Jordan. -- Responses to Pallo Jordan / Lybon Mabasa, Enver Motala. -- Themes: discussion and questions to the panel. Education and liberation. Neville Alexander: being human (and enough) is enough. Education for a new humanism in the 21st century / K.A. Porteus. -- Responses to Kim Porteus / Daryl Braam, Al Witten. -- Themes: discussion and questions to the panel. -- Language, identity and culture. Language, culture and national consciousness: the thoughts of Neville Alexander / Brian Ramadiro. -- Responses to Brian Ramadiro / Elize Koch, Carole Bloch. -- Themes: discussion and questions to the panel. -- Ethics, morality and values on post-apartheid South Africa--towards a revolutionary practice. What do revolutionaries do between revolutions? Thoughts on the revolutionary practice of Neville Alexander / Eugune Cairncross -- Neville Alexander--theory and action / Lydia Cairncross. -- Rejoinder. Neville Alexander and revolutionary practice: morality, ethics and values / Salim Vally. -- Themes: discussion and questions to the panels. -- An afterword: What would Neville have said? / Crain Soudien. -- Addendum. Non-racialism's politics: reading being human through the life of Neville Alexander / Crain Soudien.
Summary:
"At the time of his death in August 2012 Neville Alexander was undoubtedly one of South Africa's foremost proponents of the philosophy of non-racialism. He had devoted his life to fighting against the evils of racism, sexism and economic injustice. He understood how these social realities not only divided but also ranked human beings in terms of human worth and value. He saw how these realities diminished the whole society, both the perpetrators and victims. And so he gave over his life as a scholar and a political activist to challenging these realities. This volume brings together the reflections of a group of activists and scholars on the significance of Neville Alexander to the cause of freedom and justice in South Africa. The reflections are essentially the keynote speeches and the responses to them that were made at a conference in Alexander's honour held at the Centre for Non-Racialism and Democracy at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in July 2013"--Back cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.