The South Africa Reader: History, Culture, Politics - Paperback

by Clifton Crais (Editor), Thomas V. McClendon (Editor)

More than eighty absorbing texts and images shed light on South Africa's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and pose challenges to its future.

Author Biography

Clifton Crais is Professor of History and Director of African Studies at Emory University. He is the author of Poverty, War and Violence in South Africa; Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (with Pamela Scully); and The Politics of Evil: Magic, Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa.

Thomas V. McClendon is Professor of History at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. He is the author of White Chief, Black Lords: Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845-1878 and Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s.