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“Workers of All Colours Unite!”: South African Communism, the White Working Class, and the Ideology of Proletarian Non-Racialism, 1917–1943

Pieter C. van Duin
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 64–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-2-64
Published: 01 August 1995
...Pieter C. van Duin © 1995: South Asia Bulletin 1995 “Workers of All Colours Unite South African Communism, the White Working Class, and the Ideology of Proletarian Non-Racialism, 191 7-1943...
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White Drugs in Interwar Egypt: Decadent Pleasures, Emaciated Fellahin, and the Campaign against Drugs

Liat Kozma
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2013) 33 (1): 89–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2072739
Published: 01 May 2013
...Liat Kozma In the late 1920s and early 1930s, British and Egyptian officials, medical doctors, and the Egyptian press reiterated that country was plagued by “white drugs”: cocaine and heroin. Kozma’s article demonstrates how, in addition to presenting drug consumption as a social problem, discourse...
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Islam in Black and White

Robert Launay
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 641–647.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3426481
Published: 01 December 2015
... in re- mote villages. Much of Marty’s research was based on these files and reflected the collective bias of ISLAM IN BLACK AND WHITE the French administration as well as his...
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Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism : A Decade Later

Himani Bannerji, Shahrzad Mojab, Judith Whitehead
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (2): 262–271.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2010-012
Published: 01 August 2010
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Law’s Inhumanities: Peripheral Racialization and the Early Development of an Iranian Race

Nina Farnia
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 455–473.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1264352
Published: 01 August 2011
... as white by the state. Likely as a result of this categorization, few scholars have taken up the question of how Iranians are raced, particularly in the context of law and public policy. On the other hand, if and when the community is discussed in academic or popular literature on race, it is thrown...
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Abusive Narratives: Antjie Krog, Rian Malan, and the Transmission of Violence

Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (1): 109–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-059
Published: 01 May 2008
... multiple subject positions as a white South African woman, a journalist, and an Afrikaner. These conflictual positionings are, in part, held responsible for what is seen as her inability to deal critically with the failures of the TRC. While there is certainly merit to these readings of Krog, this essay...
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“Lowering Our Prestige”: American Cinema, Mass Consumerism, and Racial Anxiety in Colonial India

Babli Sinha
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 291–305.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2009-011
Published: 01 August 2009
.... The article argues that American films of the 1920s posited an alternative notion of whiteness and the West that stood for democracy and social mobility, clashed with the traditionalism and hierarchy of empire, and undermined the notion of an Indian identity at odds with foreign technologies and entertainment...
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Revisiting Race and Slavery through ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti’s ‘Aja’ib al-athar

Dahlia E. M. Gubara
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 230–245.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-6982018
Published: 01 August 2018
... this literature and its key organizing concepts: namely, the ideas of race, slavery, and freedom. In place of the free-unfree, black-white dichotomies pervading contemporary understandings of labor and subjectivity, the essay calls for greater attention to other concepts and grammars before and outside of Europe...
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Savarkar's Miscegenous Hindu Race

Luna Sabastian
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 66–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11141431
Published: 01 May 2024
..., Savarkar instead grounded Hindutva's myth of a single Hindu race in all-round biological admixture. “Miscegenation,” as it was conceptualized by Nazis and white supremacists at the time, buttressed Hindutva's tremendous violence against Muslims, whose annihilation would come through gendered incorporation...
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Fayzi's Planetary Poetics: A Theory of Poetry

Jane Mikkelson
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (3): 460–475.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-11470431
Published: 01 December 2024
...Jane Mikkelson Abstract This article recovers a theory of poetry articulated by the Indian poet laureate Abul Fayz Fayzi (d. 1595) in “The White Tide of Dawn” (“Tabashir-i subh”), the Persian prose preface to his collected poems. Fayzi's oblique style of thought wanders through shifting metaphors...
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Gandhi, Indian Opinion , and the Making of Indo–south African Identity, 1903–14

Goolam Vahed
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 354–360.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3139132
Published: 01 August 2015
... the striking themes of this study are slow reading, which Hofmeyr works out at length, and Gandhi's racial prejudices toward Africans at a time when Africans' own political activism was developing in parallel with those of Gandhi, within a context of the militarized consolidation of white power. Slow reading...
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Lasting Legacies: Contemporary Struggles and Historical Dispossession in South Africa

Robin L. Turner
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 275–292.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-3603343
Published: 01 August 2016
... residence in putatively white areas highly contingent and insecure throughout the former Transvaal. This article analyzes the connections between past dispossession and contemporary rural land and natural resource struggles in the Limpopo and North West provinces, contending that addressing South Africa's...
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Common Ground: Filth as an Idiom of Critique in Two South Asian Communities

Roanne L. Kantor
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (1): 134–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-3482171
Published: 01 May 2016
... Darbari , Upamanyu Chatterjee's English, August , Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger , and Moshin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia all link soiling substances with larger critiques of rural life. These critiques echo, but do not always neatly overlap with, the discourses of actual rural people...
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From the Subcontinent with Love: India and Activist Diplomacy in Twentieth-Century Central Africa

Trishula Patel
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 455–468.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9408002
Published: 01 December 2021
... Pant and the history of Indian engagement with Rhodesia has not, until now, been explored. This article argues that the central role of India in the colonial world ensured that London reined in the white settler Rhodesian government from enacting discriminatory legislation against its minority Indian...
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Against Abstractions: On Geopolitics, Humanness, Virus, and Death

Sima Shakhsari
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 237–253.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9698268
Published: 01 May 2022
...Sima Shakhsari Abstract This article focuses on different iterations of virality to explore the racial logic of death and the crisis of our time during the coronavirus pandemic. By examining the war on the coronavirus, the sanctions on Iran, and the rise of white supremacy in the United States...
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Figure 1. Cover page of the fifteenth issue of Fedaï: Journal de Soutien à la Révolution Palestinienne (February 23, 1972). Faintly visible beneath an editorial call to protest racist crimes in France, a black and white photograph of marching Palestinians bearing Palestinian flags. Fonds Saïd Bouziri, La Contemporaine.

Cover page of the fifteenth issue of Fedaï: Journal de Soutien à la Révolu...

in Decolonizing History: Algeria, Palestine, and the Movement for Migrant Rights in Postcolonial France > Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 August 2022
Figure 1. Cover page of the fifteenth issue of Fedaï: Journal de Soutien à la Révolution Palestinienne (February 23, 1972). Faintly visible beneath an editorial call to protest racist crimes in France, a black and white photograph of marching Palestinians bearing Palestinian flags. Fonds Saïd More
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Britain's Red Summer: The 1919 Race Riots in Liverpool

Carlton Wilson
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 25–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-2-25
Published: 01 August 1995
... in no less than nine British port towns. shaped by lingering traditional imperial attitudes and Thousands of people were involved, three white and policies of employers, unions, and the state toward two black men were killed, dozens injured, over 200 the black population in various British cities...
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Picturing the Maghreb: Literature, Photography, (Re)Presentation; Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood through Madness in Francophone Women's Writing of Africa and the Caribbean

Mary McCullough
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 265–267.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-265
Published: 01 May 2005
... as “liminal” A Study in Vernacular Politics Africa and the subjects contributing to the gendering of this sec- Jenny B. White tor and charts their increased visibility as economic Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002 Middle East...
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Indians, India, and Race and Nationalism in British Central Africa

Michael O. West
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 86–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-14-2-86
Published: 01 August 1994
...Michael O. West © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 2 ( 1994) Indians, India, and Race and Nationalism in British Central Africa Michael 0.West If the country was to be maintained as a white of east, southern and central...
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A Note: Minorities' Responses to Racism in the British Seamen's Union

G. Alonso Pirio
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (2): 56–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-4-2-56
Published: 01 August 1984
... as part of the war effort, of white seamen and the lowering of white wages, the union's opposition from the Trade Union Congress blocked the response was preconditioned by a hegemonic British imperial importation into Great Britain of Third World workers on a culture...
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