— Have U Heard from Johannesburg

Catalog description

A seminar on the transatlantic connections between America and South Africa. This interdisciplinary course explores the historical connections between South Africa and the US. The course will examine the ways in which cultural, political and economic exchanges have shaped the two countries over the past four centuries, from the early days of Dutch and British colonialism, through Jim Crow and Apartheid, into the globalized present in which both countries are intertwined in ways that are not often recognized or analyzed. Specific New Orleans-area connections that would be addressed would include an examination of Zulu identity in South Africa and New Orleans, and research on the anti-apartheid movement in the U.S. in the archives of the Amistad Research Center