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Whiteness in Southern Africa

Rethinking white societies in Southern Africa from the 1930s to the 1990s, particularly the region’s white workers and white poor and their relationship with white-ruled states.

How colonial Portugal, to project the idea of a multi-continental and multiracial country, initiated a drive to encourage white settlement in Angola and Mozambique.

Can African scholars write different histories about settler societies—especially as Africans or Africanist scholars based in Africa or in the diaspora? The case of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) is instructive.

How did South Africa’s white working class—those close to the politicized black workforce—experience the reform of apartheid?

Why did white mineworkers on the Zambian Copperbelt not seriously resist decolonization?