Volume 9, No. 3 (July 2008)

   Introduction: Southern Identity: Geography, Culture, and History in the Making of the American South
   Derek Catsam
   Thomas Dixon, Scotch-Irish Identity, and "the Southern People"
   G.K. Peatling
   Harlem, the “New Negro,” and the South: History and the Politics of Place
   Mark Andrew Huddle
   What is a Southerner? A Study in Antebellum Southern Jewish Identity
   Jennifer A. Stollman
   Shame, Honor, and Denial in the Symbolic Ethnicities of Southern Whites
   Thomas Brown
   Southern Identity: A Dissent
   Alex Lichtenstein
   Southern Nonidentity
   Leigh Anne Duck
   Reply: The Irony of Southern Identity: A Defense of Communal Imaginations
   Derek Catsam
   Memorializing Freedom Struggles
   Chris Saunders
   Anchoring Black Diasporic History
   Cedric Tolliver
   "My People all over the World": Hip Hop, Gender, and Black Nationalism
   Natasha Distiller
   Book Reviews
   Obituary: George M. Fredrickson

Volume 9, No. 2 (April 2008)

   Theory and Textuality: Reading Zora Neale Hurston and Bessie Head
   Desiree Lewis
   A New Bloodline: Antjie Krog's Autobiographical Prose and the Paradoxes of Belonging
   Yianna Liatsos
   “Restorying” the Maternal Myth of Origin in Zami and Makeba: My Story
   Benjamin M. O. Odhoji
   The Unsettling Side of Death: Post-colonial Irony in Bosman's Unto Dust
   Gitte Postel
   Which World?
   Mark Sanders
   Indenture in Comparative Perspective
   Surendra Bhana
   Rewriting Modernity
   Sam Raditlhalo

Volume 9, No. 1 (January 2008)

   Disruption, Quotation, and Narrative Ethics in Nadine Gordimer's A World of Strangers
   Cynthia Port
   "The End of an Error": Transition and "Post-apartheid Play" in Ivan Vladislavic's The Restless Supermarket
   Caitlin Charos
   Remembering to Forget: Monumental vs. Peripatetic Archiving in Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit
   Shane Graham
   "Os Bons Colonizadores": Cuba's Educational Mission in Angola, 1976-1991
   Christine Hatzky
   Cryptic Rhetoric: The ANC and Anti-Americanization
   Ian Glenn
   Looking at The Heart of Whiteness in South Africa Today
   Thomas Blaser
   Book Reviews

Volume 8, No. 4 (October 2007)

   Oprah in South Africa: The Politics of Coevalness and the Creation of a Black Public Sphere
   Zine Magubane
   Amor Matris : Language and Loss in J. M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
   Thangam Ravindranathan
   Breeders or Workers? The Structure of Slave Prices in the Cape Colony, 1823-1830
   Robert C.-H. Shell and Parbavati Rama.
   Getting Your Own Back: Land Restitution among the Oneida Indians of North America and the Tsitsikamma Mfengu of South Africa
   Mark Everingham, and Robin Palmer.
   South African and Global Apartheid: The Experience of Basotho Labor in the South African Gold Mines and Taiwanese-owned Textile Factories
   Scott Rosenberg
   Racial Discrimination in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A New Irreducible "Other"?
   Mónica Inés Cejas

Volume 8, No. 3 (July 2007)

   Editorial
   "Transvaal Spectacles": South African Visions at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
   Jennie Sutton
   Applied Comparisons: The South African War through the Prism of American History
   Andrew Offenburger
   George Fredrickson's Black Liberation. A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa : Further Reflections
   Chris Saunders
   Marching in the "Dark City": Bus Boycotts in South Africa in the 1940s and the Limits and Promise of Comparative History
   Derek Charles Catsam
   Deconstructing Constructive Engagement: Why did a Republican Senate Undermine a Republican President?
   Jonathan K. Barry
   Public History and "Memorial Architecture" in the "New" South Africa: The Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto, Johannesburg
   Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Angel David Nieves.
   Book Review

Volume 8, No. 2 (April 2007)

   Crisis as Catalyst: Contemporary Zimbabwe and the Reinstatement of Region in a Global Era
   Christopher J. Lee
   The Struggle for Zimbabwe, Then and Now: Notes Toward a Deep History of the Current Crisis
   Michael O. West
   Competing Explanations of Zimbabwe's Long Economic Crisis
   Patrick Bond
   The Historiography of Land in Zimbabwe: Strengths, Silences, and Questions
   Jocelyn Alexander
   "Intellectuals" Interpreting Zimbabwe's Primitive Accumulation: Progress to Market Civilization?
   David Moore
   "A Place of Trouble": The Political Ecology of HIV/AIDS in Chipinge, Zimbabwe
   Tonya Nicole Taylor
   Reconstructing Zimbabwe's Past: The Professional Historians Return
   Terence Ranger

Volume 8, No. 1 (January 2007)

   Editorial
   Towards a Prismatic "American Studies"
   Jane Desmond
   Speaking For/Against/From the Inside: The Uses of American Studies
   Loes Nas
   Reading and Teaching Colonial America in South Africa
   Greg Cuthbertson
   Apartheid, Jim Crow, and Comparative Literature
   Leigh Anne Duck
   Transnational Print Cultures: Books, -scapes, and the Textual Atlantic
   Andrew van der Vlies
   Musical Echoes of American Jazz: Towards a Comparative Historiography
   Carol Muller
   Traveling Jazz: Themes and Riffs
   Michael Titlestad
   Cold War and Hot Translation
   Monica Popescu
   Bodies and Borders: Vietnam/Namibia
   Lesley Marx
   America's Africa: Barack Obama and the Aporia of Race
   Grant Farred
   A Culture of Tourism: Branding the Nation in a Global Market
   Helen Kapstein

Volume 7, No. 3 (July 2006)

   An Introduction to Issue 23: Deterritorializing American Culture
   Rita Barnard
   The Un-Americanness of American Literature
   David Watson
   American Musical Surrogacy: A View from Post-World War II South Africa
   Carol A. Muller
   Home on the Range: The Americanization of my Father
   Lesley Marx
   The Tiny Skin Boat: Visiting Gary Snyder in "Amerika"
   Julia Martin
   Oprah's Paton, or South Africa and the Globalization of Suffering
   Rita Barnard

Volume 7, No. 2 (April 2006)

   Abolition, Violence, and Rape: Thoughts on the Post-Emancipation Experiences of the United States and the Cape Colony
   R.L. Watson
   An African American Constructs and Confronts the Social Construction of Race in Post-Apartheid South Africa
   Dawne Y. Curry
   Parchment Barriers Revisited: The U.S. and South African Bills of Rights
   J. Barron Boyd
   The Enigmatic Max Yergan: David Henry Anthony III. Max Yergan: Race Man, Internationalist, Cold Warrior. New York and London: New York University Press, 2006.
   Ann K. Ziker
   Lewis Nkosi Redux: Lindy Stiebel and Liz Gunner. Still Beating the Drum: Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi. Editions Rodopi, 2005.
   David J. Carter

Volume 7, No. 1 (January 2006)

   Safundi and White Supremacy: An Introduction to Issue 21
   Andrew Offenburger
   Reflections on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Publication of White Supremacy
   George M. Fredrickson
   Beyond White Supremacy: Some Reflections
   Christopher Saunders
   Editing and Publishing The Frontier in History with Leonard Thompson, 1971-1981
   Howard R. Lamar
   Identity, State, and Capitalist Development: Looking Back on the Comparative Study of South Africa
   Ran Greenstein
   George M. Fredrickson and Comparative Approaches to the Study of the United States and South Africa: Personal Reflections
   Lewis V. Baldwin
   The Comparative Imagination: George Fredrickson and New Directions in Comparative and Transnational History
   Derek Catsam

Volume 6, No. 4 (October 2005)

   "The History of the Cape is Already Written in that of America": The Colonization of America in South Africa's Discourse of Empire, 1820s-1850s
   Christoph Strobel
   Resistance, Memory, and Hope: The Photographic Art of Peter Magubane
   Paul Von Blum
   Struggling for Freedom: The Divestment Movement at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977-1987
   Claudia Gastrow
   Culture without Borders: A Dialogue with Robert J.C. Young
   Antony Adolf

Volume 6, No. 3 (July 2005)

   The Language of Residential Exclusion: Comparisons between Cape Town and Farmingville, New York
   Grant Saff
   Perspectives on Brown: The South African Experience
   Penelope Andrews
   Remembering Negative Pasts: Shriver, Donald W. Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
   Christopher Saunders
   Kathrada's Memoirs Prompts Questions: Kathrada, Ahmed. Memoirs. Cape Town: Struik Publications, 2005.
   Cornelius Thomas

Volume 6, No. 2 (April 2005)

   Immigration: The Forgotten Factor in Cape Colonial Frontier Expansion, 1658-1817
   Robert C.-H. Shell
   Unbowed and Unbanned: The South African Freedom Charter at Fifty
   Margaret Burnham
   The Burden of Celebrating True Greatness: A Response to Derek Catsam's "Choosing the Wings on Which One Soars"
   Lewis V. Baldwin
   What's Greatness Got to Do with It? A Response to a Response
   Derek Catsam

Volume 6, No. 1 (January 2005)

   Sacred History: The Formation of Civil Religions in South Africa and the American South in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
   Bob Elder
   Choosing the Wings on Which One Soars: Comparison, Historiography, and the New South Africa: A Response to Lewis V. Baldwin's "Soaring on the Wings of Pride"
   Derek Catsam
   A Road-Trip Documentary Without a Map: Story of a Beautiful Country. Directed by Khalo Matabane, 2004. Distributed by First Run-Icarus Films.
   Sean Jacobs
   Potholes in The Road: South African Democracy Education Trust. The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 1 (1960-1970). Zebra Press, 2004. ISBN 1868729060.
   Cornelius Thomas

Volume 5, No. 4 (October 2004)

   An Introduction to the Safundi Pedagogy Issue: Teaching about South Africa in the United States
   Larry Shore
   Holding Up the "Mottled Mirror": Teaching South African Literature in the United States
   Mary Elizabeth Pope
   Teaching in the Mirror: The Pedagogy of Prejudice in Cross-Cultural Comparison
   Kristen J. Klaaren
   On Teaching South African Literature in the Age of Terror
   Russell Samolsky
   Teaching "War Stories": Literature, Violence, and Resistance in South Africa and the United States
   Meta Schettler
   Teaching a Seminar on "Southern African Literature"
   Loretta Stec
   Brave New Worlds: Teaching Comparative United States and South African Race Relations
   Derek Catsam
   Women's Literature from South Africa and the American South: A Comparativist Pedagogy
   Pearl McHaney and Renée Schatteman.
   Teaching South African Contemporary Political Art
   Megan C. McShane
   Team-Teaching Around the World and Across the Equator
   Thelma Shinn Richard

Volume 5, No. 3 (July 2004)

   Soaring on the Wings of Pride: Martin Luther King Jr. and the "New" South Africa
   Lewis V. Baldwin
   Classifying "Race" and "Whitening" the Nation: Suggestions Towards Comparative Reading of South Africa and Brazil
   Fernando Rosa Ribeiro
   Classificando “Raças” e “Branqueando” a Nação: Sugestões Para uma Leitura Comparativa da África do Sul e do Brasil
   Fernando Rosa Ribeiro
   Power Rarely Fails: A Concluding Discussion with Noam Chomsky
   Christopher J. Lee
   "South Africa's Vietnam?": Literary History and Cultural Memory of the Border War
   Gary Baines
   Latitudes and Longitudes: Comparative Perspectives on Cape Environmental History
   Nancy J. Jacobs
   One Struggle: Legitimating Anti-Apartheid Discourse: Nesbitt, Francis Njubi. Race for Sanctions: African Americans Against Apartheid, 1946-1994. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.
   Alex Lichtenstein

Volume 5, Nos. 1-2 (April 2004)

   Ten Years of the New South Africa: An Introduction to Issue 13/14
   Barbara Masekela and Cameron R. Hume.
   Citizenship Over Race? African Americans in U.S.-South African Diplomacy, 1890-1925
   Robert Trent Vinson
   South Africa, Israel-Palestine, and the Contours of the Contemporary World Order: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
   Christopher J. Lee
   Presenting the Past, Performing the Future: Theater in New York and Cape Town Ten Years After Apartheid
   David Kornhaber
   Awake the Beloved Country: A Comparative Perspective on the Visionary Leadership of Martin Luther King and Albert Lutuli
   Robert Cook
   Rac(e)ing Poverty and Punishment in South Africa, 1920-1970
   Azeem Badroodien
   A Decade of Post-Apartheid: Is the City in South Africa Being Remade?
   Alan Morris
   Normalization and the South African City
   Stacey Isaacs
   A Scrupulously Selfless Couple: Sisulu, Elinor. Walter and Albertina Sisulu: In Our Lifetime. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers, 2002.
   Cornelius Thomas

Volume 4, No. 3 (October 2003)

   The Postcolonial University: Racial Issues in South African and American Institutions
   Adalberto Aguirre and Rubén Martinez.
   Classroom Confrontations: Racism in South Africa and the United States
   Ridwan Nytagodien
   Imagining White Riots: McKoy, Sheila Smith. When Whites Riot: Writing, Race and Violence in American and South African Culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
   Alex Lichtenstein
   George Fredrickson's Racism and United States/South African Comparisons
   Christopher Saunders

Volume 4, No. 2 (July 2003)

   The Instrument of Terror: Some Thoughts on Comparative Historiography, White Rural Unofficial Violence, and Segregation in South Africa and the American South
   John Higginson and Christoph Strobel.
   Reacting to Amy Biehl: Perspectives from South Africa and the United States
   Steven Gish
   A Review of It's My Life, a Film by Brian Tilley
   Herman Wasserman
   The Media and Mandela
   Ruth Tomaselli and Keyan Tomaselli.

Volume 4, No. 1 (April 2003)

   "Breaking the Monologue?": The American Indian Movement and Inkatha Freedom Party
   Jason McKenney
   Crossing Borders: A Black Feminist Approach to Researching the Comparative Histories of Black Women's Resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa
   Pam Brooks
   Disarticulating Black Consciousness: A Way of Reading Films About Apartheid
   Keyan Tomaselli
   Institutionalizing International Influence
   Joel Samoff
   The Study of South African Society: Towards A New Agenda For Comparative Historical Inquiry
   Ran Greenstein
   "Red Sales in the Sunset": The Rise and Fall of White Trader Dominance in the United States' Navajo Reservation and South Africa's Transkei
   Robert Volk
   The Career of Mabel Carney: The Study of Race and Rural Development in the United States and South Africa
   Richard Glotzer

Volume 3, No. 2 (May 2002)

   Ripple of Hope in the Land of Apartheid: Robert F. Kennedy in South Africa, June 4th-9th, 1966
   Larry Shore
   Youth, Popular Culture, and Identity: American Influences on South Africa and Lesotho
   Scott Rosenberg
   Women in the Interregnum: Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Nadine Gordimer's July's People
   Helen Lock
   South African and North American Treks
   Christopher Saunders
   Multicultural Feminism Transforming Democracy
   Duchess Harris

Volume 3, No. 1 (February 2002)

   Playing the Reverse-Race Card in South Africa and America: A Case Study in Convergent Localization
   James Statman
   In Search of a Nation: Nation Building in the New South Africa
   Hendrik Pieterse
   John Cell: The Passing of a Leading Comparative Scholar of South Africa and the United States
   Rick Watson
   Divided Minds, Different Countries
   Christopher Saunders
   Africa Civilized, Africa Uncivilized: Local Culture, World System, and South African Music
   Veit Erlmann
   American Campaign Techniques Worldwide
   Fritz Plasser
   American Connections
   Hugh Brogan
   Residential Segregation in South Africa and the United States: Evaluating the Sustainability of Comparative Research
   Grant Saff
   White-Collar Crime in South Africa: A Comparative Perspective
   Lala Camerer
   A Review of Slavery, Emancipation, and Abolition in South Africa and the United States in the Eighteenth Century
   George Carter
   Privatizing Prisons from the United States to South Africa: Controlling Dangerous Africans across the Atlantic
   William G. Martin
   Policy of Preference: Lessons from India, the United States, and South Africa
   Krishna Tummala

Volume 2, No. 4 (November 2001)

   Growing Up with Maya Angelou and Sindiwe Magona: A Comparison
   Siphokazi Koyana and Rosemary Gray.
   "I am NOT just like one of the family...": The Black Domestic Servant and White Family Dynamics in 20th Century American and South African Literature
   Mary Pope
   Diasporic Displacement and the Search for Black Female Identity in Toni Morrison's Tar Baby and Nadine Gordimer’s None to Accompany Me
   Fiona Mills
   Globalization and Union Democracy: A Comparison of the Hormel Strike of 1985-1986 (USA) and the Volkswagen Strike of 2000 (South Africa)
   Peter Rachleff
   David Schmahmann, Empire Settings: A Novel. Buffalo, N.Y.: White Pine Press, 2001. 327 pp, hardcover, $21.95. ISBN 1893996166.: A Review
   Jim Cobbe
   Maurice S. Evans, Black and White in the Southern States: A Study of the Race Problem in the United States from a South African Point of View, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001, xxix +299 pages.: A Review
   Surendra Bhana

Volume 2, No. 3 (July 2001)

   Kids Killing Kids in School: Comparing Cases in the United States and South Africa
   Michael F. Welsh, and Jacque Jacobs.
   Multicultural Education in the United States: Lessons for South Africa
   Keyan Tomaselli
   From Exclusion to Inclusion: A Historical Comparison of the Educational Experiences of Black South Africans and African Americans
   Kimberly Lenease King
   Reflections on the Woman's Movement in South Africa: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
   Jennifer Lemon
   Sustainable Housing Policy and Practice: Reducing Constraints and Expanding Horizons Within Housing Delivery
   Ambrose Adebayo and Pauline Adebayo.
   Post-Apartheid South Africa and Mass Mediated Deliberation
   Sean Jacobs, and Nyameko Mgoqi.
   The Impact of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on Job Characteristics of South African University Academics
   Andy Igonor and Yolisa Soul.

Volume 2, No. 2 (April 2001)

   The Poetics of Politics: Imagi[ni]ng the New South African Nation
   Sabine Marschall
   Access to Higher Education: Race, Resources and Social Exclusion
   Martin Hall
   Problems in Learning from Traumatic History: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry
   Sara Matthews
   Michael S. Harper's Passbook: Africa in Healing Song for the Inner Ear
   Amber Vogel
   The Fulbright Experience: An Incoherent African Perspective
   Keyan Tomaselli
   Comparative Lessons for the Future
   Lynn Huntley
   Academic Freedom in the New South Africa
   John Higgins
   Pariahs in the Land of Their Birth in the Search for Identity: Sol Plaatje and Frederick Douglass
   Peter Midgley
   Gold
   Kristi Bell
   Review of Long Night's Journey Into Day: South Africa's Search for Truth and Reconciliation
   Ron Krabill

Volume 2, No. 1 (January 2001)

   Health System Performance in South Africa vs. France: World Health Report 2000
   Joseph Coyne and Peter Hilsenrath.
   Freedom in Madness: J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Madness
   Brad Tabas
   Getting Equality to Work: The South African Employment Equity Act
   Eric Cédiey
   Sortir de l’Apartheid au Travail: La Loi Sud-Africaine d’Équité dans l’Emploi
   Eric Cédiey
   Berry's Boesman & Lena, Rewarding and Punishing
   Andrew Offenburger

Volume 1, No. 2 (October 2000)

   U.S. and South African Images of Black Success: A Pilot Study in Transnationalization and Hegemony
   Michael Leslie and Michele Foss.
   A Confusion of Cinematic Consciousness: Southern Africa on Film in the United States
   Keyan Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson.
   "On the Ground" with the South African Labor Movement
   Peter Rachleff

Volume 1, No. 1 (July 2000)

   Cape Town and New Orleans: Some Comparisons
   Christopher Saunders
   The Natural Order of Things
   Colette Gaiter
   Serpent's Teeth in the Kitchen of Meaning: A Theory of South African Culinary Historiography
   Lynn Houston












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