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This reference is a book chapter in Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil by Anthony W. Marx, the CEO of the New York Public Library and former president of Amherst College. He has written multiple scholarly articles and books about South Africa. The citation for this book is:

Marx, Anthony W. “We Are a Rock,” in Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997): 194-216.

In this book chapter, Marx analyzes the economic consequences and the downfall of the apartheid state in South Africa. He argues that economics and the act of nation-building had the most influence on the anti-apartheid movement’s success. His data type is expert knowledge. To collect the qualitative data, he uses public and private records. His research question could be posed as: When did South Africans find commonality in their experiences, and what was the most successful form of protest that forced state authorities to respond to the anti-apartheid movement? This reference is credible because the content is written by a scholar that is well-knowledgeable about the region, has written multiple other works about apartheid, and is an open advocate for rights for black South Africans. The book is interesting to me because it looks at deeper economic effects, rather than other works written about racial injustice. Racial injustice is important to look at, but there are factors other than political protest that contributed to the success of the anti-apartheid movement. This may be interesting to my classmates who may not know much about the anti-apartheid movement in general, considering that it was not originally supported by Western countries, including the United States. It may not have appeared in world history school textbooks during middle school or high school education.