Repairing the Past: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery, Genocide, & Caste
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“We cannot hope properly to understand the history of the period under review unless we give apartheid and racism their rightful place as the defining features of that period. (TRC Report, Chap.1, Vol.1, p.15) The quote is ironic because Fullard goes on to argue that the questions of race and racism were in fact strikingly absent from the interrogational framework of the TRC, in both its processes and its products. (Fullard, p.1) If she is correct, then the TRC appears to have failed, by its own admission, in its endeavour to craft an alternative historical consensus. On the other hand, Fullard also contextualises this assertion by suggesting that the TRC was a product of its own
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