| Summary: | BestRed, an imprint of HSRC Press, in partnership with the UJ Library, invites you to a discussion with MICHAEL SCHMIDT, the author of A Taste of Bitter Almonds: Perdition and Promise in South Africa. ABOUT THE BOOK: A Taste of Bitter Almonds is a challenging new view from the ground on race and class that interrogates the continuities between apartheid’s autocracy and today’s troubled democracy in the world’s most unequal society. The book’s themes of identity, dispossession, and reclamation are grounded in the colonial era: examining the multiracial nature of settler colonisation and the First Nations Genocide sets the scene for an exploration of the maintenance of apartheid geography and conditions of exclusion under democracy, from zama-zama coal-miners and poor whites, to prostitutes and pogromists, witches and wastrels, lesbians and land claimants. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Michael Schmidt is an investigative journalist, anarchist militant, free press activist and published historian. He is the co-author, with Prof Lucien van der Walt, of Black Flame: the Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (USA, 2009), and the author of Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism (USA, 2013), and of Drinking with Ghosts: the Aftermath of Apartheid’s Dirty War (SA, 2014). He founded the Professional Journalists’ Association of South Africa, and The Ulu Club for Southern African Conflict Journalists, and is the former executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism. He is working on an international multimedia project on massacre and memory with Lebanese writer Rasha Salti, and continues to write for the mainstream and alternative press. FACILITATOR: Prof Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Head: Department of Journalism, Film and Television, UJ DATE 12 April 2016 TIME 16:30 for 17:00 VENUE APK Library Auditorium 6th Floor), University of Johannesburg (corner Kingsway and University Road, Auckland Park, Johannesburg) RSVP Before Monday 11 April 2016 to Theodorah Modise licevents@uj.ac.za or 011 559 2264.
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