There are very good sections on apartheid, but the curriculum is weak on the anti-apartheid struggle and on U.S. relations with South Africa. A Tool Kit for Education and Action. Available for borrowing from the Boston University African Studies Outreach Program. Q. N. Parsons, L. Callinicos and K. Shillington Move Your Shadow , Joseph Lelyveld Winner of Pulitzer Prize. Very readable and good introduction to contemporary society and politics, including U.S. corporate involvement.
Lacks perspective on internal resistance to apartheid.
Freedom Rising , James North Very readable introduction to South African society and politics. Excellent section on resistance to apartheid. Apartheid Reader, G. McCuen. Commentary, cartoons and debates on South Africa. Crossing the Line , William Finnegan Finnegan, who is now a staff writer for the New Yorker, writes with insight into his experience as a teacher in a black South African high school.