Whiteness in Southern Africa

Rethinking white societies in Southern Africa from the 1930s to the 1990s, particularly the region’s white workers and white poor and their relationship with white-ruled states.

How colonial Portugal, to project the idea of a multi-continental and multiracial country, initiated a drive to encourage white settlement in Angola and Mozambique.

Can African scholars write different histories about settler societies — especially as Africans or Africanist scholars based in Africa or in the diaspora? The case of Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) is instructive.

How did South Africa’s white working class — those close to the politicized black workforce — experience the reform of apartheid?

Why did white mineworkers on the Zambian Copperbelt not seriously resist decolonization?