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Brown v. Bantu Education : a transnational evaluation of educational reform through the press in the 1950s
Thesis (PhD (History))--University of Pretoria, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/103411 Brown v. Bantu Education : a transnational evaluation of educational reform through the press in the 1950s Harris, Karen Leigh nadinemoore89@yahoo.com Moore, Nadine Lauren UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Education Newspapers Apartheid Segregation Cold war Thesis (PhD (History))--University of Pretoria, 2025. As the United States of America stood on the precipice of monumental civil rights advances in the mid-twentieth century, the National Party's racist apartheid ideology was creating a society that was diametrically opposed to values of integration and equality in South Africa. Despite the differences between these two nations' respective attitudes towards race, they continued to exist as Western allies with mutual political interests in the 1950s. This paradoxical diplomatic relationship will be analysed through the lens of education and the press, by specifically comparing two watershed historic moments: Brown v. Board of Education (1954) in the United States and the Bantu Education Act (1953) in South Africa. In examining black and white newspapers from these two nations, this thesis adds depth to the transnational contextual understanding of segregated educational policy by reflecting on historical similitudes, while also contrasting their disparate paths. Highlights include an evaluation of the shared struggle over who controls education; an articulation of the magnitude of the loss of black perspectives in South Africa because of apartheid censorship; and illustrating how the persistent Cold War narrative of American ‘exceptionalism’ was a misnomer from a South African perspective at that time. This comparison between the constitutional and educational parallels ultimately enhances the awareness of the social memory and collective identity in both the United States and South Africa, which contributes to a more accurate and holistic understanding in the long trajectory of comparative history between these two nations. Historical and Heritage Studies PhD (History) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities SDG-04: Quality education 2025-07-16T12:52:32Z 2025-07-16T12:52:32Z 2025-09 2025-07 Thesis * S2025 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/103411 Disclaimer Letter en © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Education Newspapers Apartheid Segregation Cold war Brown v. Bantu Education : a transnational evaluation of educational reform through the press in the 1950s |
| title | Brown v. Bantu Education : a transnational evaluation of educational reform through the press in the 1950s |
| title_full | Brown v. Bantu Education : a transnational evaluation of educational reform through the press in the 1950s |
| title_fullStr | Brown v. Bantu Education : a transnational evaluation of educational reform through the press in the 1950s |
| title_full_unstemmed | Brown v. Bantu Education : a transnational evaluation of educational reform through the press in the 1950s |
| title_short | Brown v. Bantu Education : a transnational evaluation of educational reform through the press in the 1950s |
| title_sort | brown v bantu education a transnational evaluation of educational reform through the press in the 1950s |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Education Newspapers Apartheid Segregation Cold war |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/103411 |