In “Class Warfare,” a chapter from Native Nostalgia (2009), Jacob Dlamini explains why he is nostalgic for a time in which working class black South African families widely believed that “education was liberation.” As he argues, there were stark class divisions in apartheid-era Katlehong, the township of his youth, and “working-class culture valued education, not because our social betters said we ought to but because we knew it was valuable” (93).
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