Indian South Africans and the Black Consciousness Movement under apartheid

A. Desai

DOI:10.1080/09739572.2014.957972

Corpus ID: 161185355

Indian South Africans and the Black Consciousness Movement under apartheid

@article{Desai2015IndianSA,
  title={Indian South Africans and the Black Consciousness Movement under apartheid},
  author={A. Desai},
  journal={Diaspora Studies},
  year={2015},
  volume={8},
  pages={37 - 50}
}

A. Desai

Published 2015

History

Diaspora Studies

In the late 1960s, “non-White” university students marched out of the white dominated but, at that stage, still multiracial, National Union of South African Students. They formed the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and began formulating an ideology called Black Consciousness. At its heart, the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) called for the unity of South Africa's oppressed, which they defined as African, Coloured and Indian. Those who were not students found a home in the Black… CONTINUE READING

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