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This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africa's democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining themes with local, national, regional, and global relevance: the politics of nation building, public memory, residential segregation, higher education, media, racism, trade unionism, women's rights, and global climate change.
List of contents
Prologue Introduction
1. In Search of a Nation: Nation Building in the New South Africa (2002)
2. Walking the Gauntlet-A Daunting Forty-Five Years' Transition of Stutterheim within a South African Community, c. 1960-2005 (2009)
3. The Memory of Trauma and Resistance: Public Memorialization and Democracy in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Beyond (2010)
4. International Norms and the End of Apartheid in South Africa (2015)
5. Empathy's echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling (2016)
6. Post-Apartheid South Africa and Mass-Mediated Deliberation (2001)
7. Privatizing Prisons from the United States to South Africa: Controlling Dangerous Africans Across the Atlantic (2002)
8. Residential Segregation in South Africa and the United States: Evaluating the Sustainability of Comparative Research (2002)
9. A "Bloody Epidemic": Whiteness and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa (2013)
10. The global threat of race in the decomposition of struggle (2020)
11. Academic Freedom in the New South Africa (2001)
12. Multicultural Education in the United States: Lessons for South Africa (2001)
13. The Postcolonial University: Racial Issues in South African and American Institutions (2003)
14. South Africa, Israel-Palestine, and the Contours of the Contemporary World Order: An Interview with Noam Chomsky (2004)
15. America's Africa: Barack Obama and the Aporia of Race (2007)
16. The Struggle for Zimbabwe, Then and Now: Notes Toward a Deep History of the Current Crisis (2007)
17. Unveiling the Third Force: Toward Transitional Justice in the USA and South Africa, 1973-1994 (2014)
18. Trump, Zuma, Brexit: anti-Black racism and the truth of the world (2020)
19. Globalization and Union Democracy: A Comparison of the Hormel Strike of 1985-1986 (USA) and the Volkswagen Strike of 2000 (SOUTH AFRICA) (2001)
20. Crossing Borders: A Black Feminist Approach to Researching the Comparative Histories of Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa (2003)
21. Getting Your Own Back: Land Restitution among the Oneida Indians of North America and the Tsitsikamma Mfengu of South Africa (2007)
22. The Marikana Massacre: Seeing it All (2015)
23. LGBTQI rights in South Africa (2017)
24. Fahrenheit 451 in the era of 36 °C (2021)
About the author
Christopher J. Lee has published eight books, including
Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (2010, rev. 2nd edition 2019),
Unreasonable Histories: Nativism, Multiracial Lives, and the Genealogical Imagination in British Africa (2014),
Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism (2015),
Kwame Anthony Appiah (2021), and
Alex La Guma: The Exile Years, 1966-1985 (2024). He is currently the Lead Editor of
Safundi.
Andrew Offenburger is Associate Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is author of
Frontiers in the Gilded Age: Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917 (Yale University Press, 2019), and is co-editor with Patricia Nelson Limerick on the forthcoming
Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond (University of Nebraska Press). He is the Founding Editor of
Safundi.
Summary
This book addresses the multiple repercussions of South Africa’s democratic transition beginning in 1994 by examining themes with local, national, regional, and global relevance: the politics of nation building, public memory, residential segregation, higher education, media, racism, trade unionism, women’s rights, and global climate change.
