The Roads to Hillbrow : : Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants / / Jean Halley, Ron Nerio.
This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between identity, migration, and place.Since it was founded in 1894, amidst Johannesburg’s transformation from a mining town into the largest city in southern Africa, Hillbrow has been a communi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 30 color illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Prologue 1: Return to Hillbrow
- Prologue 2: Being White and the Politics of Not Seeing
- 1 South Africa A History of Land Dispossession and Migration
- 2 Hillbrow and Apartheid
- 3 Uprising and Change, 1976–93
- 4 Hillbrow in a New Country, 1994–99
- 5 Hillbrow in the Twenty- First Century
- 6 A Web of Relationships
- 7 Hillbrow’s Credoscapes—Spaces of Hope and Connection
- Conclusion
- Epilogue The COVID- 19 Crisis in Hillbrow
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index