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Overcoming Historical Injustices

Overcoming Historical Injustices

Gibson, James L.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology

General LawUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0521517885
ISBN13: 9780521517881
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 20 2009
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Overcoming Historical Land Injustices in South Africa is the last entry in Gibson's overcoming trilogy on South Africa's transformation from apartheid to democracy. Focusing on the issue of historical land dispossessions - the taking of African land under colonialism and apartheid - this book investigates the judgments South Africans make about the fairness of their country's past. Should, for instance, land seized under apartheid be returned today to its rightful owner? Gibson's research zeroes in on group identities and attachments as the thread that connects people to the past. Even when individuals have experienced no direct harm in the past, they care about the fairness of the treatment of their group to the extent that they identify with that group. Gibson's analysis shows that land issues in contemporary South Africa are salient, volatile, and enshrouded in symbols and, most important, that interracial differences in understandings of the past and preferences for the future are profound.

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