Africans are often sold as physically strong with raw talent, but lacking in discipline and technical refinement.
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In the 1600s the Netherlands established one of the world’s first art markets – but it couldn’t have happened without the economic boom spurred by the slave trade.
Rick Turner and Steve Biko both critique the limitations of white liberalism, arguing that it fails to address the root causes of oppression.
Who the taxi strike affected, where and how shows the violent reality of the city’s spatial injustice.
The creation of social media accounts based on fictional models raises pointed questions about race, representation and commodification.
The democratic transition in 1994 was the result of an ‘elite pact’ that changed the country’s politics, but did little to undermine the foundations of white economic power.
Book sheds new light on the evolution of the economic policy of the African National Congress, South Africa’s governing party.
It is not hard to see the roots of 20th century apartheid policies in the legacy of the British settlers.
Acknowledging the source of the images would amplify rather than diminish the power of Hank Willis Thomas’s political art.
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Senior Lecturer (Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork), University College Cork
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Postdoctoral fellow, University of Groningen
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Sports Science, University of Tübingen
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor Emeritus and Head, Isikhumbuzo Applied History Unit, Rhodes University
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emerita in Sociology and Honorary Research Professor in SWOP, University of the Witwatersrand
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Reader in Digital Media Studies, Cardiff University
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Assistant Professor, California State University, Fresno
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Starr Director of the Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute, and lecturer in Art History, Williams College