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This book presents key historical scholarship published in Safundi from 1999 to 2024, tracing South Africa's past through approaches of comparative history, transnational history, and visual history.
List of contents
Introduction
1. Cape Town and New Orleans: Some Comparisons (2000)
2.Pariahs in the Land of Their Birth: Sol Plaatje and Frederick Douglass in the Search for Identity (2001)
3. The Instrument of Terror: Some Thoughts on Comparative Historiography,White Rural Unofficial Violence, and Segregation in South Africa and the American South (2003)
4. Reflections on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Publication of White Supremacy (2006)
5. Citizenship Over Race? African Americans in U.S.-South African Diplomacy, 1890-1925 (2004)
6. Immigration: The Forgotten Factor in Cape Colonial Frontier Expansion, 1658 to 1817 (2005)
7. Toward a "Modernizing" Hybridity: McAdoo's Jubilee Singers, McAdoo's Minstrels, and Racial Uplift Politics in South Africa, 1890-1898 (2014)
8. "The most patient of animals, next to the ass": Jan Smuts, Howard University, and African American Leadership, 1930 (2017)
9. Loathing and Love: Postcard Representations of Indentured Chinese Laborers in South Africa's Reconstruction, 1904-10 (2008)
10. Photography and the Future in Jansje Wissema's Images of District Six (2014)
11. On Photographs at War: Images of the South African 6th Armored Division in Italy 1944-1945 (2014)
12. "Like a Family": Global Models, Familial Bonds, and the Making of an American School for Zulu Girls (2010)
13. The Voice of (Which?) Africa: Miriam Makeba in America (2012)
14. Forlorn daughters? The role of social motherhood in transnational African Methodist Episcopal missionary women networks, 1900-1940s (2018)
15. "What is it that We Call the Nation": Cecilia Lillian Tshabalala's definition, diagnosis, and prognosis of the nation in a segregated South Africa (2018)
16. Crossing the Color Lines, Crossing the Continents: Comparing the Racial Politics of the IWW in South Africa and the United States, 1905-1925 (2011)
17. "Yours for Socialism": Communist Cultural Discourse in Early Apartheid South Africa (2013)
18. Servicing "intimate publics": Johannesburg and Baltimore department stores in the 1960s (2020)
19. Latitudes and Longitudes: Comparative Perspectives on Cape Environmental History (2004)
20. Reconstructing Zimbabwe's Past: The Professional Historians Return (2007)
21. Abolition, Violence, and Rape: Thoughts on the Post-Emancipation Experiences of the United States and the Cape Colony (2010)
22. Youth and generation in South African history (2018)
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 ( 2019), and is co-editor with Patricia Nelson Limerick on the forthcoming
Translating Past to Present: Interpreters in the American West and Beyond. He is the Founding Editor of
Safundi.
Summary
This book presents key historical scholarship published in Safundi from 1999 to 2024, tracing South Africa’s past through approaches of comparative history, transnational history, and visual history.
