History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices (Critical Perspectives on the Past)

Joshua Brown is Art Director of the American Social History Project at Hunter College and a member of the "Radical History Review" editorial collective.

Presents discussions of the historiography of South Africa from the viewpoint of those rewriting it with a radical outlook. This book describes major issues in South African social and labor history and popular culture, and focuses on the role of historians in creating and interacting with a popular movement of resistance and social change.

Preface John Brown, Patrick Manning, Karin Shapiro, and Jon Wiener 1. Radical History and South African Society Belinda Bozzoli and Peter Delius Part I: Radical Historians and South Africa's Past 2. Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe J.B. Peires 3. Highways, Byways and Cul-de-Sacs: The Transition to Agrarian Capitalism in Revisionist South African History Helen Bradford 4. The Politics of Black Squatter Movements on the Rand, 1944-1952 Philip Bonner 5. An Image of Its Own Past? Towards a Comparison of American and South African Historiography Colin Bundy 6. Literature and History in South Africa Stephen Clingman 7. Charters from the Past: The African National Congress and Its Historiographical Traditions Tom Lodge 8. The Unity Movement: Its Legacy in Historical Consciousness Bill Nasson 9. South African Labor History: A Historiographical Assessment Jon Lewis 10. Popular Struggle: Black South African Opposition in Transformation C.R.D. Halisi 11. Buthe-lezi, Inkatha, and the Problem of Ethnic Nationalism in South Africa Chris Lowe 12. Intellectuals, Audiences and Histories: South African Experiences, 1978-1988 Belinda Bozzoli Part II: Photo Essays 13. Labor Tenancy in Bloemhof Santu Mofokeng 14. Promised Land Gideon Mendel Part III: Popular History and Popular Culture 15. Popular History in the Eighties Luli Callinicos 16. History and History Teaching in Apartheid South Africa Melanie Walker 17. South African People's History David Anthony 18. A Positional Gambit: Shaka Zulu and the Conflict in South Africa" C.A. Hamilton 19. Musical Form and Social History: Research Perspectives on Black South African Music Deborah James 20. Performing History off the Stage: Notes on Working-Class Theater Bhekizizwe Peterson 21. "Bearing Witness": Ten Years Towards an Opposition Film Movement in South Africa Harriet Gavshon 22. Oral History and South African Historians Paul la Hausse 23. Staffrider Magazine and Popular History: The Opportunities and Challenges of Personal Testimony A.W. Oliphant 24. Developments in Popular History in the Western Cape in the 1980s Andre Odendaal 25. The Write Your Own History Project Leslie Witz 26. Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It? Joshua Brown Chronology: South Africa, 1800-1900 Notes Contributors