{"product_id":"the-terrorist-album-apartheids-insurgents-collaborators-and-the-security-police-9780674916555","title":"The Terrorist Album: Apartheid's Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning historian and journalist tells the very human story of apartheid's afterlife, tracing the fates of South African insurgents, collaborators, and the security police through the tale of the clandestine photo album used to target apartheid's enemies.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the 1960s until the early 1990s, the South African security police and counterinsurgency units collected over 7,000 photographs of apartheid's enemies. The political rogue's gallery was known as the \"terrorist album,\" copies of which were distributed covertly to police stations throughout the country. Many who appeared in the album were targeted for surveillance. Sometimes the security police tried to turn them; sometimes the goal was elimination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll of the albums were ordered destroyed when apartheid's violent collapse began. But three copies survived the memory purge. With full access to one of these surviving albums, award-winning South African historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini investigates the story behind these images: their origins, how they were used, and the lives they changed. Extensive interviews with former targets and their family members testify to the brutal and often careless work of the police. Although the police certainly hunted down resisters, the terrorist album also contains mug shots of bystanders and even regime supporters. Their inclusion is a stark reminder that apartheid's guardians were not the efficient, if morally compromised, law enforcers of legend but rather blundering agents of racial panic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith particular attentiveness to the afterlife of apartheid, Dlamini uncovers the stories of former insurgents disenchanted with today's South Africa, former collaborators seeking forgiveness, and former security police reinventing themselves as South Africa's newest export: \"security consultants\" serving as mercenaries for Western nations and multinational corporations. \u003ci\u003eThe Terrorist Album\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant evocation of apartheid's tragic caprice, ultimate failure, and grim legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDlamini, Jacob:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jacob Dlamini is the author of \u003ci\u003eNative Nostalgia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAskari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the Alan Paton Award. He is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University and was previously political editor of \u003ci\u003eBusiness Day\u003c\/i\u003e in South Africa. Dlamini grew up under apartheid in a township outside Johannesburg.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50519705714962,"sku":"9780674916555","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a69c7348-aa59-4cb1-bdf0-096619910c27.jpg?v=1731063028","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-terrorist-album-apartheids-insurgents-collaborators-and-the-security-police-9780674916555","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}