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Karin Shapiro

Karin Shapiro CV

Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
kshapiro@duke.edu
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
243D Friedl Building, Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Wednesdays 3:30pm-5:00pm  
CV

Selected Publications

Campus activism at Yale: fragmentary memories and reflections on the 1980s

Journal Article Safundi · January 1, 2022 American college campuses during the Reagan years were far from quiescent or complacent. Anti-apartheid activism and efforts to get universities to divest from companies doing business in South Africa dominated campus activism in the mid-1980s. To dramatiz ... Full text Cite

A conversation with Jacob Dlamini

Journal Article Safundi · January 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War

Journal Article Journal of Southern History · 2019 Cite

No Exit? Emigration Policy and the Consolidation of Apartheid

Journal Article Journal of Southern African Studies · June 30, 2016 Featured Publication Cite

In appreciation: Rita Barnard

Other Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies · February 15, 2016 Cite

Doing Time in the Depression: Everyday Life in Texas and California Prisons by Ethan Blue

Book Review Labor: Studies in the Working Class History of the Americas · January 2016 Cite

Durham’s Jewish Community in Transition

Other Triangle Downtowner Magazine · 2013 Cite

David Montgomery, 1927 – 2011

Other Radical History Review · May 1, 2012 Featured Publication Full text Cite

Steel Drivin’ Man - John Henry - The Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson

Book Review Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas · 2007 Cite

Convict Labor in the New South

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Horton, Miles, Founder, Folk School

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Riley, William, United Mine Workers of America

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Tennessee Convict Uprising

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Zion in Africa: The Jews of Zambia

Book Review Journal of Southern African Studies · 2001 Cite

"Company Town, Company Estate: Pilgrim's Rest, 1910-1932

Journal Article Journal of Southern African Studies · June 1993 Featured Publication Cite

Recent Works in African American History

Journal Article Radical History Review · 1993 Cite

Radical History Review

Journal Article Radical History Review · 1990 History from South Africa ... Cite

Capital and Labour on the Kimbereley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890 by Robert V Turrell

Book Review International Journal of African Historical Affairs · 1988 Cite

Interns' Attitudes towards Aspects of their Medical Education

Journal Article SAMJ South African Medical Journal · November 1979 Link to item Cite

Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

Book Review Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Full text Cite