Noel Chabani Manganyi: Being-While-Black-and-Alienated in Apartheid South Africa
Mabogo Percy More | | ISBN: 978-0-7961-1025-1 $45.00 |
| 2024/256 pages Distributed for AISA, an imprint of HSRC Press |
DESCRIPTION
This is fundamentally a book about race, antiblack racism, and the related problem of the alienation of human beings from one another, from their bodies, and from themselves, all within the context of apartheid and postapartheid South Africa.
Mabogo More critically engages with the work of Noel Chabani Manganyi (1940–), a prolific author and South Africa's first Black clinical psychologist, to reflect on race in South Africa today. As he explores Manganyi's concerns about apartheid racism's production of alienation among Black people, More argues that this devastating alienation continues, to the detriment both of individual Black South Africans and their entire society.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mabogo Percy More has been professor of philosophy at the Universities of the North, Durban-Westville, KwaZulu-Natal, and Limpopo. Now semiretired, he is associate researcher at the University of Limpopo.
CONTENTS
- Introduction.
- The Psychologist-Philosopher.
- The Philosopher-Pyschologist.
- The Concept of Alienation.
- Apartheid and Alienation.
- Black Thinkers on Alienation.
- Being-Black-in-the-World.
- The Black Body and Alienation.
- Racism and Alienation.
- Manifestations of Alienation.
- Supersession of Alienation (De-alienation).
- Conclusion: By Way of Critique.
"A must-read for deepening our individual and collective understanding of the requirements of disalienation—and of radical humanism—then and now."— Jane Anna Gordon, author of Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement