there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

This looks like a great book that I should read!

New Publication from ASCL!

Windvogel en Cupido delves into the origins of Dutch-sounding Khoisan surnames in South Africa. What do names like these reveal about identity, history, and shared cultural heritage between South Africa and the Netherlands?

This looks amazing!!

In our latest #OA Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Joel Cabrita:

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#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid

A brief highveld summer shower over Wesselton Mine in Kimberley. No challenge for the might of the thirstland.

I wrote and edited most of African Thresholds while physically crossing the border, on the train to and fro my academic home @geschichtebasel.bsky.social – a very privileged crossing. The book would not exist without the comfort, support, and intellectual stimulation I found in Basel. Thanks!

The first press report on the discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1867, which concluded:

"Stranger things, however, have come to pass in the world than the discovery of Diamonds in South Africa"

Thanks!! The very first idea of this book started to take form when I was a PhD student there with you @soasuni.bsky.social @soashistory.bsky.social, so you have a big part in this (but no responsibility as the saying goes 😅)

The book is the product of the collective effort of a bunch of great scholars: Fernando Mouta, Pierluigi Valsecchi, María José Pont Cháfer, Giulia Casentini, and Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo contribute with a wonderful chapter each 🤓

I truly cannot find a better way to start this profile than by announcing the publication of my first (edited) book, which came out with @dgb-history.bsky.social a few days ago. Thanks to the support of the @snsf.ch, the book is freely available here:

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