South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid.
Analyze a document from pages 145-203 of Nancy Clark and William Worger, South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid.
Carefully choose one of the documents to analyze. This assignment will provide an opportunity to explore the racial system of apartheid and other aspects of race relations in modern South Africa in greater depth than can be obtained from other required readings.
Read pages 1-144 of Clark and Worger (especially Chapters 3-5) to gain an in-depth understanding of what the racial system of apartheid was and how and why it was constructed and dismantled. Then select one of the documents to analyze.
This paper should use the document analysis to develop a deeper understanding of apartheid. As you read and take notes, be sure to pay attention to the following questions:
What was the racial system know as apartheid and how and why was it constructed?
Analyze the document by investigating the following questions: Who created the document? Why was the document created?
What was the document’s intended audience? What type of document is it? When was the document created?
You may choose to make reference to other documents in the Clark and Worger volume if they offer a useful perspective on your document.
How does the document enhance my understanding of apartheid?
