The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968-1977

[...] Magaziner contrasts Black Consciousness thinkers, whom he views less as racial exclusivists than "autonomous shoppers," drawing on ideas from multiple countries rather than "ape" white society, with "an uncritical movement toward the white world," the "dominant trend in black South Africa's engagement with modernity" in the 1950s (p. 41). Magaziner notes how, circumventing apartheid "Bantu education," many Black Consciousness leaders studied at the "shrinking array" of mission schools (p. 23), but four pages before states that the Department of Bantu Education "seized control of African education from the country's many missions."