Comparative Perspectives on South Africa

Ran Greenstein is Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He studied at the University of Haifa and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of Genealogies of Conflict: Class, Identity and State in Palestine/Israel and South Africa (1995), and editor of Comparative Perspectives on South Africa (1998).

• Foreword - Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Identity, Race, History: South Africa and the Pan-African Context; R.Greenstein - Marxists or Fashionable Ladies? Gender, Identity and Working-Class History; I.Berger - Models and Metaphors: Industrial Education in the United States and South Africa; J.Campbell - End Games of Segregation and Apartheid: South Africa and the American South; J.W.Cell - The Role of Culture in Democracy Movements in the Black Expressive Tradition: Artist Performance Practice in Brazil, South Africa and the United States; R.M.Chandker - Black Power in the United States and Black Consciousness in South Africa: Connections and Comparisons; G.M.Fredrickson - Variations on Settler Ethnicity: The Dissolution of the Afrikaner Nationalist and Ulster Unionist Coalitions; A.Johnston - Oppositional Identities in Brazil and South Africa: Unions and the Transition to Democracy; G.W.Seidman - On the Mines: Work, Leisure and Resistance in the Folklore of Mines and Miners of South Africa and Appalachian America; R.Ralston - Afterword; J.Lonsdale - Index