Richard L Raber
@richardraber.bsky.social
Historian of war and society in 20th and 21st century Southern Africa.
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Richard L Raber
@richardraber.bsky.social
· Jul 21
Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa
The apartheid-era South African Defence Force’s most notorious units, 31 Battalion and 32 Battalion, were composed of African troops. With the onset of Namibia’s 1990 independence, these soldiers a...
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Delighted to share the publication of my article "Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa" in @jsas-journal.bsky.social
It is open access and freely available at the link below.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It is open access and freely available at the link below.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Wriggling, Wriggling www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Ledger-Lomas · Wriggling, Wriggling: Ruthless Cecil Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes saw the ‘native question’ very differently from imperial officials and missionaries who tried to...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Wriggling, Wriggling www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Dispute Over Indiana College Newspaper Draws Censorship Accusations www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/b...
Dispute Over Indiana College Newspaper Draws Censorship Accusations
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October 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Dispute Over Indiana College Newspaper Draws Censorship Accusations www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/b...
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency
in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of
malnutrition-related deaths...
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July 31, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Delighted to share the publication of my article "Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa" in @jsas-journal.bsky.social
It is open access and freely available at the link below.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It is open access and freely available at the link below.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa
The apartheid-era South African Defence Force’s most notorious units, 31 Battalion and 32 Battalion, were composed of African troops. With the onset of Namibia’s 1990 independence, these soldiers a...
www.tandfonline.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Delighted to share the publication of my article "Fallen Heroes and First Peoples: Memory Composition Among Two Ex-Military Communities in South Africa" in @jsas-journal.bsky.social
It is open access and freely available at the link below.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It is open access and freely available at the link below.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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July 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
An Efficient Man www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andy Beckett · An Efficient Man: A Nazi in Chile
Now that the war is so long ago, the subject of Nazi exiles in South America can seem a stale, even dubious...
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July 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
An Efficient Man www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thrilled to share the open access publication of my newest article, "A Biography of Bones: Tracing the Shifting Meanings of Griqua Remains from Their 1961 Exhumation to the Present" coauthored with David Morris in Genealogy.
www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/...
www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/...
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June 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Thrilled to share the open access publication of my newest article, "A Biography of Bones: Tracing the Shifting Meanings of Griqua Remains from Their 1961 Exhumation to the Present" coauthored with David Morris in Genealogy.
www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/...
www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/9/...
The Attacks on Zohran Mamdani Show That We Need a New Understanding of Antisemitism www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...
Opinion | The Attacks on Zohran Mamdani Show That We Need a New Understanding of Antisemitism
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June 25, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The Attacks on Zohran Mamdani Show That We Need a New Understanding of Antisemitism www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/o...
I am delighted to share that my PhD dissertation has been selected as the winner of the 2025 Indiana University Graduate School Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts category.
June 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I am delighted to share that my PhD dissertation has been selected as the winner of the 2025 Indiana University Graduate School Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts category.
How to Beat Ebola www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Edna Bonhomme | How to Beat Ebola
Uganda declared the outbreak over on 26 April. In total there had been fourteen reported cases, of whom four died and...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
How to Beat Ebola www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Selma Dabbagh | In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible
Malak Mattar’s monumental 2024 black-and-white painting inspired by Guernica is entitled No Words (… for Gaza). A...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
In Gaza Nothing’s Impossible www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Starvation in Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza
Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...
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May 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Starvation in Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Genocide undebated — how words failed the Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
Genocide undebated — how words failed the Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town
In the face of unrelenting allegations of Israeli atrocities in Gaza, what would constitute an act of Jewish self-betrayal? On Freedom Day 2025, at the Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town, this ques...
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May 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Genocide undebated — how words failed the Jewish Literary Festival in Cape Town www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
'Complete takeover': Lawmakers exert control over university policy in 11th hour
They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning.
www.indystar.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
They appeared near the bottom of the 220-page budget bill Wednesday evening, and rose to the forefront of the heated debate Friday morning. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...
For those of you in Kimberley and the Northern Cape, I’d like to extend an invitation to my public lecture at Sol Plaatje University tomorrow at 1 PM.
See you there!
See you there!
April 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
For those of you in Kimberley and the Northern Cape, I’d like to extend an invitation to my public lecture at Sol Plaatje University tomorrow at 1 PM.
See you there!
See you there!
Universal Values www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
Michael Rothberg | Universal Values
On 1 April, the memorial site at the former Buchenwald concentration camp announced that the Israeli philosopher Omri...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Universal Values www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
Tonight! See you there.
I’ll be tracing the story and remarkable archival practice of my friend, and collaborator, Dino Estevao. Separated from his family in southern Angola during a 1980 SADF attack, he was raised at the base of the very unit who committed the attack.
I’ll be tracing the story and remarkable archival practice of my friend, and collaborator, Dino Estevao. Separated from his family in southern Angola during a 1980 SADF attack, he was raised at the base of the very unit who committed the attack.
Next week I’ll be giving a public lecture entitled "'I barely found anything' - Seizing the means of archival production in the aftermath of atrocity" at the McGregor Museum Kimberley, cohosted by the South African Archaeological Society Trans-Garib Branch
15 April 2025 at 18:00
15 April 2025 at 18:00
April 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Tonight! See you there.
I’ll be tracing the story and remarkable archival practice of my friend, and collaborator, Dino Estevao. Separated from his family in southern Angola during a 1980 SADF attack, he was raised at the base of the very unit who committed the attack.
I’ll be tracing the story and remarkable archival practice of my friend, and collaborator, Dino Estevao. Separated from his family in southern Angola during a 1980 SADF attack, he was raised at the base of the very unit who committed the attack.
Next week I’ll be giving a public lecture entitled "'I barely found anything' - Seizing the means of archival production in the aftermath of atrocity" at the McGregor Museum Kimberley, cohosted by the South African Archaeological Society Trans-Garib Branch
15 April 2025 at 18:00
15 April 2025 at 18:00
April 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Next week I’ll be giving a public lecture entitled "'I barely found anything' - Seizing the means of archival production in the aftermath of atrocity" at the McGregor Museum Kimberley, cohosted by the South African Archaeological Society Trans-Garib Branch
15 April 2025 at 18:00
15 April 2025 at 18:00
“Investigating him felt like an opportunity to draw a line between us, to take control of the story.” @newlinesmag.bsky.social
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Tracing My Grandfather’s Past Took Me to the Violent Heart of the British Empire
I always knew of his connection to Kenya, but it wasn’t until the elders died that I learned of his role in suppressing the Mau Mau uprising
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March 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“Investigating him felt like an opportunity to draw a line between us, to take control of the story.” @newlinesmag.bsky.social
newlinesmag.com/essays/traci...
newlinesmag.com/essays/traci...