{"product_id":"crossroads-i-live-where-i-like-a-graphic-history-paperback","title":"Crossroads: I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKoni Benson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eAndré Trantraal\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn by South African political cartoonists the Trantraal brothers and Ashley Marais, \u003cem\u003eCrossroads: I Live Where I Like\u003c\/em\u003e is a graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the struggle for land, housing, water, education, and safety in Cape Town over half a century. Drawing on over sixty life narratives, it tells the story of women who built and defended Crossroads, the only informal settlement that successfully resisted the apartheid bulldozers in Cape Town. The story follows women's organized resistance from the peak of apartheid in the 1970s to ongoing struggles for decent shelter today. Importantly, this account was workshopped with contemporary housing activists and women's collectives who chose the most urgent and ongoing themes they felt spoke to and clarified challenges against segregation, racism, violence, and patriarchy standing between the legacy of the colonial and apartheid past and a future of freedom still being fought for.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresenting dramatic visual representations of many personalities and moments in the daily life of this township, the book presents a thoughtful and thorough chronology, using archival newspapers, posters, photography, pamphlets, and newsletters to further illustrate the significance of the struggles at Crossroads for the rest of the city and beyond. This collaboration has produced a beautiful, captivating, accessible, forgotten, and in many ways uncomfortable history of Cape Town that has yet to be acknowledged.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrossroads: I Live Where I Like\u003c\/em\u003e raises questions critical to the reproduction of segregation and to gender and generational dynamics of collective organizing, to ongoing anticolonial struggles and struggles for the commons, and to new approaches to social history and creative approaches to activist archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKoni Benson\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian, organizer, and educator. \u003cb\u003eRobin D.G. Kelley\u003c\/b\u003e is an American historian and academic. \u003cb\u003eAshley E. Marais\u003c\/b\u003e is a comic book artist, designer, and painter. \u003cb\u003eAndré Trantraal\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, illustrator, and translator. \u003cb\u003eNathan Trantraal\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, cartoonist, translator, and writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 9.9 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768840651040,"sku":"9781629638355","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7b8dc457b34cadd5cdaec6ec334d5492.webp?v=1780338538","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/crossroads-i-live-where-i-like-a-graphic-history-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}