1. Session 17: Power, identity and global landscapes
– Part 1 & 2: Introductory concepts & themes;
Culture and prejudice
October 31, 2013
1) Live Skype presentation & discussion with
Marius Brand – professor and anti-apartheid
activist in South Africa
2) Handing back of critical review
Readings: Chapter 7 of Norton – One World Divided; The Mistaken
Idea of Race; The Reality of Racism
Norton, W. (2005). Cultural Geography: Environments, Landscapes, Identities, and
Inequalities. Oxford University Press, Don Mills.
Apartheid Museum,
South Africa

2. Apartheid: An official policy of racial segregation formerly
practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal
and economic discrimination against nonwhites.
•Enforced by the National Party government in South Africa
between 1948-1994 (though racial segregation existed long
before, beginning in Dutch colonial times)
•bantustans: self-governing homelands allocated by the
government for black people
•1990: President de Klerk negotiated the end of Apartheid
•1994: the first multi-racial elections were held  Nelson
Mandela elected to office, his party: African National Congress