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June 25, 2014
Written by Bonnie Joy Massey
Considered “one of the cruelest forms of institutional racism ever
devised” (Marx 1992:x), South Africa’s system of forced racial
segregation or apartheid from 1948 to 1994 resulted in extreme
inequality for its non-White citizens. Laws and policies enforced
unequal distribution of food, education, work, and medical care among
other resources as well as abolishing access to civic or political
participation. In 2010, as an American graduate student in South Africa I
was exposed for the first time to the country’s violent history and
recent move towards democracy.
