The Oxford Handbook of South African History

Daniel Magaziner teaches South African, African and Global history at Yale University. A specialist in intellectual and cultural history, he has written three books published both in the United States and South Africa: The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968 - 1977 (Ohio University Press / Jacana Media, 2010); The Art of Life in South Africa (Ohio University Press / University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2016); and Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle to Change South Africa (Ohio University Press (2024) / Jacana Media (2025)). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

• Part I. Historiographical Orientations 1. Intuiting the Archive: When the Women Are Unidentified Athambile Masola 2. Historical Memory-Making in South Africa Robyn Autry 3. Queering South African History Zintombizethu Matebeni and Peace Kiguwa 4. South African Environmental Histories Jonathan Cane Part II. Sources and Methods for Deeper Pasts 5. Archaeology and History of the Subcontinent: Unraveling the South African PastForeman Bandama 6. Trade, Slavery, and Islam in the Cape Colony Saarah Jappie 7. The Politics of Chiefs and Commoners Before the 1830s Raevin Jimenez 8. Mobility Histories of the Northern Cape in the Long 19th century Andrea Rosengarten Part III. Creativity, Conflict, and Cataclysm in the 19th Century 9. Settler Colonialism in the Eastern Cape and Beyond, 1800-1880s Anne Kelk Mager 10. Conquest, Continuity, and Creation: Contesting Identities in Nineteenth-Century Natal T.J. Tallie 11. Race and the Making of South African Christianity Elizabeth Elbourne 12. South African Urbanization and Industrialization to 1948 Jonathan Hyslop Part IV. Disunited South Africa 13. South African War, Union, Segregation Goolam Vahed 14. Between Splitting and Lumping: The Naming and Framing of Coloureds and Indians Before Apartheid Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed 15. Translators, Translation, and Literature in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century South Africa Hlonipha Mokoena 16. Settler-colonial Nationalism and the Politics of Land, Labour, and Language in the Nineteenth-century Cape Colony: Towards an Alternative Afrikaner Biography Mariana Kriel 17. "New African" Culture and Sociopolitical Life in Early to Mid Twentieth-Century South Africa Janet Remmington Part V. The 20th-century Racial State and Its Antagonists 18. Segregated Landscapes in South Africa, 1800-1994 Tara Weinberg 19. Afrikaner Nationalism and White Politics, 1910-1948 Albert Grundlingh 20. The Nazaretha, Zionists, and Other Rebels in Segregated South Africa Lauren V. Jarvis 21. "African Redemption": Transnational Prophesies of Deliverance in Segregationist South Africa Robert Trent Vinson 22. African Nationalism, Non-Racialism, and Pan-Africanism Jon Dylan Soske 23. Women and Popular Politics in Twentieth-Century South Africa Meghan Healy-Clancy 24. The Apartheid Project Stephen Sparks 25. Cultural Histories of South Africa Liz Gunner Part VI. Struggles, Victories, and Compromises 26. The Rise and Demise of Cross-Cultural Artistic Expression and Interracial Creative Collaboration, circa 1920-1970 Vusumuzi R. Kumalo and Benjamin N. Lawrance 27. Political Violence and the Liberation Movements: 1960-1990 Thula Simpson 28. Different Faces of Exile: The International Dimensions of South African History and Historiography after 1948 Christopher J. Lee 29. The Historiography of the South African Sports Boycott Sean Jacobs 30. Apartheid and the Bantustans: From Reserves to Reincorporation Laura Evans 31. Comparative Student Movements in South Africa: Social Movement Theory Perspectives Xolela Mangcu and Anne K. Heffernan 32. Rethinking Representations of Trade Unionism in South Africa Camalita Naicker 33. Christianity, Islam, and the Antiapartheid Movement Phillippe Denis 34. Politics and Youth in 1980s South Africa Emily Bridger 35. Compromise, Conflict, and Promise in the Making of South African Democracy Faeeza Ballim and Jill Kelly Part VII. The Presence of the Past 36. South Africa in Africa, from Apartheid to Post-Apartheid Olusola Ogunnubi 37. Health Justice, Activism, and the Crisis of HIV/AIDS in South Africa Mandisa Mbali 38. Land and Reparation Politics and Policy after Apartheid Thuto Thipe 39. Post-Apartheid Politics in South Africa: Caught between Dominance and Betrayal Sisonke Msimang