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‘From white supremacy to black liberation’: intellectual lineages from South Africa in the ‘making of America’

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  • For a recent history of the change to democracy in South Africa, see Davenport TRH The transfer of power in South Africa Cape Town 1998
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  • See Toussaint Fallen among liberals: an ideology of Black Consciousness examined African Communist 1979 78 18 30 For a recent analysis of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa, see David Howarth, ‘Complexities of identity/difference: Black Consciousness ideology in South Africa’, Journal of Political Ideologies, 2, 1 (1997), pp 51–78
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  • Cuthbertson , GC . 1977 . The political career of Richard Stuttaford, 1924–1942 , University of Cape Town . Unpublished MA thesis
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  • Campbell , James . 1997 . “ Towards a transnational comparative history ” . In Beyond white supremacy: towards a new agenda for comparative histories of South Africa and the United States , Collected Seminar Papers, 49 24 – 24 . London : Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London . in
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  • See An African American in South Africa: the travel notes of Ralph J Bunche Edgar R Johannesburg 1991
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  • Cuthbertson , Greg . 1992 . Cape slave historiography and the question of intellectual dependence . South African Historical Journal , 27 : 26 – 49 .
  • See Krikler Jeremy Waiting for the historians Southern African Review of Books 1990 3 6 16 17
  • This pioneering view informed the analysis of Charles van Onselen's much acclaimed history of sharecropping in South Africa The seed is mine: the life of Kas Maine Cape Town 1996
  • van Onselen , Charles . 1992 . The social and economic underpinning of paternalism and violence on the maize farms of the south-western Transvaal, 1900–1950 . Journal of Historical Sociology , 5 ( 2 ) : 133 – 135 .
  • On the impact of sanctions on South Africa, see Edgar Robert E Sanctioning apartheid Trenton, NJ 1990 and more recently, Robert Kinloch Massie, Loosing the bonds: the United States and South Africa in the apartheid years (New York, 1997).
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  • American intellectuals and the problem of ethnos since World War II American Historical Review 1993 98 317 337 Also see Hollinger, ‘The narrative of inclusion and the will to descend: American historiography at the multiculturalist moment’, in Wendy F Katkin (ed), Beyond pluralism: essays on the definition of groups and group identities in American history (Durham, 1994).
  • Cuthbertson , Greg , ed. 1994 . Black writing: an American studies perspective from southern Africa Pretoria
  • See, for example Hamilton Carolyn Wright John ‘The making of the AmaLala: ethnicity, ideology and relations of subordination in a precolonial context’ and C A Hamilton’ “An appetite for the past”: the re-creation of Shaka and the crisis of popular historical consciousness' South African Historical Journal 1990 22 Luli Callinicos, ‘Popularising history in a changing South Africa’ and Jack Lewis, ‘Materialism and idealism in the historiography of the Xhosa Cattle-Killing Movement 1856–7’, South African Historical Journal, 25 (1991); Cynthia Kros, ‘Tokens of the past?’ and Elizabeth Delmont, ‘The Voortrekker monument: monolith to myth’, South African Historical Journal, 29 (1993).
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  • See Greenstein Ran The future of the South African past Journal of Southern African Studies 1996 20 2 325 331
  • Campbell , James T . 1995 . Songs of Zion: the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa New York
  • Cooper . Race ideology and the perils of comparative history 1135 – 1135 .
  • Onselen , Van . The seed is mine
  • Bundy , Colin . 1997 . Comparatively speaking: Kas Maine and South African agrarian history . Journal of Southern African Studies , 23 ( 2 ) : 363 – 370 . also see Cynthia Kros, ‘Farewell to the middle style? Reflections on The seed is mine', South African Historical Journal, 37 (1997), pp 178–185.
  • et al. The USA in the 19th and 20th centuries , 2nd ed University of South Africa Pretoria 1996
  • For similar comparisons, see Gump James O The dust rose like smoke: the subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux Lincoln 1994 Ran Greenstein, ‘History, historiography and the production of knowledge’, South African Historical Journal, 32 (1995), pp 217–232; Richard Hull, ‘Native reserves and Indian reservations: what the South Africans learned from the Americans on dealing with land and indigenous populations’, Paper presented at the 16th South African Historical Society Conference, University of Pretoria, South Africa, July 1997.
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  • On this point, see Robins Steven Silence in my father's house: memory, nationalism, and narratives of the body Negotiating the past Nuttall Coetzee 120 140 in
  • The most powerful record of the TRC to date is by Krog Antjie Country of my skull Johannesburg 1998
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  • Marx , Anthony W . 1998 . Making race and nation: a comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil xiv – xiv . Cambridge

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