Breaking boundaries, defying borders: transnational networks of gender and race in South Africa and the United States
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Article Title | Breaking boundaries, defying borders: transnational networks of gender and race in South Africa and the United States |
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ERA Journal ID | 124383 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Cooke, Claire (Author) and Stevenson, Ana (Author) |
Journal Title | Safundi |
Safundi: the journal of South African and American studies | |
Journal Citation | 19 (1), pp. 1-8 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2018 |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 1543-1304 |
1753-3171 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2018.1404739 |
Web Address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17533171.2018.1404739 |
Abstract | This special issue examines transnational connections and collaborations among women and People of Color from South Africa and the United States, from the late nineteenth to the beginning of the twenty-first century: it considers how connections were fostered and how ideologies travelled. Key figures include Emily Hobhouse, Charlotte Maxeke, Cecilia Lilian Tshabalala, Maude White Katz, Madie Hall-Xuma, Elizabeth Mafeking, Miriam Makeba, Gloria Steinem, and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Actively and symbolically, each of these non-state actors approached the relationship between the two nations differently, through political and religious affiliations, and as individuals and through organizations. Many challenged and transcended the restrictions imposed upon them officially, through state-sanctioned segregation and apartheid, but also socially, on account of their gender. These women fostered intellectual and social connections with each other, as well as for their nations, through interpersonal relationships and in print, but also simply – and perhaps most problematically – through abstracted ideas about humanitarianism, motherhood, apartheid, and nation. Such travels and intellectual journeys could prove both mutually beneficial and hierarchically imbalanced, but nonetheless reiterate the continued transnational relevance and resonances between South Africa and the United States. |
Keywords | South Africa; United States; gender; race; transnational networks |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430312. Histories of race |
430309. Gender history | |
430322. Sub-Saharan African history | |
Byline Affiliations | University of Western Australia |
University of the Free State, South Africa | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q71wv/breaking-boundaries-defying-borders-transnational-networks-of-gender-and-race-in-south-africa-and-the-united-states
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