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  • Too Close for Comfort: Master and Slave Relations in the Colonial Cape

    Too Close for Comfort: Master and Slave Relations in the Colonial Cape The World Is Robert: An assortment of posts related to an unquenchable thirst for knowledge 2013-04-03 Robert Figueroa The effects of propinquity on the nature and development of slavery in colonial Cape society were profound. Unlike the large plantations that evolved in parts…

  • Summer in the Global Village: Trevor Noah, South Africa’s Comic Phenomenon

    Summer in the Global Village: Trevor Noah, South Africa’s Comic Phenomenon The World Public Radio International 2013-07-16 Mirissa Neff In South Africa, comedian Trevor Noah is a phenomenon. A friend who recently came back from Johannesburg and Cape Town, remarked that the 28-year-old’s every utterance, whether on TV or Twitter (where he has nearly a…

  • Ethnic Identity Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century – Fourth Edition

    Ethnic Identity Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century – Fourth Edition AltaMira Press June 2006 436 pages 7 x 9 1/4 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0972-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7591-0973-5 Edited by: Lola Romanucci-Ross, Professor Emerita of Family and Preventive Medicine University of California, San Diego De George A. Vos (1922-2010), Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of…

  • Obama hails Mandela ‘inspiration’ in South Africa visit

    Obama hails Mandela ‘inspiration’ in South Africa visit BBC News 2013-06-29 US President Barack Obama has praised Nelson Mandela as “an inspiration to the world” while visiting South Africa. The US leader, who was speaking in Pretoria after talks with President Jacob Zuma, does not intend to visit the 94-year-old, who has been critically ill…

  • Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil

    Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil Cambridge University Press December 1997 412 pages 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521585903 Hardback ISBN: 9780521584555 Anthony W. Marx, President and CEO New York Public Library In this bold, original and persuasive book, Anthony W. Marx provocatively links the construction…

  • Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective

    Multiracial Identity: An International Perspective Palgrave Macmillan September 2000 186 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches ISBN: 978-0-312-23219-1 ISBN10: 0-312-23219-5 Mark Christian, Professor of African & African American Studies Lehman College, City University of New York Multiracial Identity provides an accessible account of the social construction of racialized groups. Using both primary (in-depth interviews)…

  • The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking

    The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology Volume 115, Number 1 (April 2013) pages 43-57 DOI: 10.1177/0725513612470533 Gerhard Maré, Professor of Sociology University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Despite a constitutional and oft-stated political commitment to an undefined notion of non-racialism, South Africans continue to operate…

  • Under the Skin

    Under the Skin Finch Publishing August 2012 210 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781921462801 Marion van Dyk This beautifully written and evocative memoir is a fascinating insight into the lives of her family, living under apartheid, who struggled to create a sense of identity and personal worth. It’s a book of historical relevance in its revelations about…

  • Zakes Mda: The Madonna of Excelsior

    Zakes Mda: The Madonna of Excelsior Muthal Naidoo: Published Books, Plays, Poems and Articles 2011-11-01 Muthal Naidoo (2002. Cape Town. Oxford University Press)   The Immorality Act of 1927, which prohibited sex between Blacks and Whites, was amended in 1950 to prohibit sex between Whites and all non-Whites. Zakes Mda bases his novel, The Madonna…

  • The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel

    The Madonna of Excelsior: A Novel Picador (an imprint of Macmillan) March 2005 288 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312423827; ISBN10: 0312423829 Zakes Mda, Professor of Creative Writing Ohio University In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior in South Africa’s white-ruled Free State were charged with breaking apartheid’s Immorality Act, which forbade…