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Professor of the Practice in the Department of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
243D Friedl Building, Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works


A Road Out

Digital art · May 2025 A Road Out invites you to explore how community health initiatives can cross borders and cultures, showing what medicine can achieve when healthcare professionals and communities work together to heal and thrive. Filled with photographs, interviews, film c ... Link to item Cite

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

“John Henry Lives On: Sherman James and the John Henryism"

Digital art · 2018 Epidemiologist Sherman James explores the startling effects of discrimination on the wellbeing of African Americans. He explains how the stressors induced by racial and economic oppression not only circumscribed opportunities, but also adversely affected p ... Link to item 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

Beth El Synagogue: the first 125 years," Durham, NC

Artistic production · 2013 The exhibition explored Durham's Jewish History over the past 125 years within the context of industrialization, suburbanization, and race relations. Exhibited at: Durham County Library; Freeman Center for Jewish Life, Duke University; Beth El Synagogue, ... Link to item Cite

David Montgomery, 1927 – 2011

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

Fulbright Revisited

Digital art · 2011 Featured Publication Using the Fulbright Program as a case study, we seek to examine the role and success of international exchange programs as a means of fostering international understanding and as a buttress to multilateralism. In the midst of the Cold War, hundreds of thou ... Link to item Cite

Nelson Mandela: A Light so Powerful

Artistic production · 2008 Exhibit at the American Tobacco Campus (2008) and the Durham Public Library (2007) ... Link to item 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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Highlander Folk School/Highlander Research and Education Center

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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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Double Vision: A Journey into the South African Diaspora in North Carolina

Digital art · 2005 Double Vision seeks to tell the stories of South African immigrants to North Carolina, revealing their complex motives for immigration, their struggles to reconstruct communities both with other South Africans and with North Carolinians, and the changing c ... Link to item Cite

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

Other Radical History Review · 1993 Cite

Radical History Review

Journal issue 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