Teacher and Comrade

Alan Wieder is Professor and Chair of Educational Studies at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Voices from Cape Town Classrooms: Oral Histories of Teachers Who Fought Apartheid and Race and Education: Narrative Essays, Oral Histories, and Documentary Photography.

• Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Before Dudley: Oppression, Racism, and the Roots of Resistance 2. Childhood and Youth: Learning Books, Learning Nonracialism 3. Education and Politics: Lessons for Teaching and Struggle 4. Becoming a Teacher, Becoming a Comrade: Pre-Apartheid Years 5. Education for Democracy I: The Early Years of Apartheid Through Sharpeville 6. Education for Democracy II: From Bannings to Soweto 7. Education for (Liberation) before Education: Teaching and Politics in the Struggle Years 8. Reflecting on Reflections: Conclusions and Considerations of the Present Sources GlossaryIndex

"…the book has filled an important gap in South Africa's intellectual history." — African Studies Review"This volume is incredibly relevant for American teachers and teacher unionists. The struggles, failures, and triumphs of Dudley and his comrades are instructive for American teachers and political activists." — Wayne J. Urban, author of Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond, 1904–1972