EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Josh Brown, Patrick Manning, Karin Shapiro, Jon Wiener

HISTORY WORKSHOP EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

Radical History and South African Society
Belinda Bozzoli
Peter Delius

FEATURE ARTICLES

Suicide or Genocide?: Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe
J.B. Peires

Highways, Byways and Culs-de-Sacs: The Transition to Agrarian Capitalism in Revisionist South African History
Helen Bradford

The Politics of Black Squatter Movements on the Rand, 1944-1952
Philip Bonner

An Image of Its Own Past? Towards a Comparison of American and South African Historiography
Colin Bundy

Literature and History in South Africa
Stephen Clingman

Charters from the Past: The African National Congress and Its Historiographical Traditions
Tom Lodge

The Unity Movement: Its Legacy in Historical Consciousness
Bill Nasson

South African Labor History: A Historiographical Assessment
Jon Lewis

Intellectuals, Audiences and Histories: South African Experiences, 1978-1988
Belinda Bozzoli

PHOTO ESSAY

Promised Land
Gideon Mendel

BRIEFINGS

Popular History in the Eighties
Luli Callinicos

History and History Teaching in Apartheid South Africa
Melanie Walker

Musical Form and Social History: Research Perspectives on Black South African Music
Deborah James

Performing History off the Stage: Notes on Working-Class Theater
Bhekizizwe Peterson

"Bearing Witness": Ten Years Towards an Opposition Film Movement in South Africa
Harriet Gavshon

Oral History and South African Historians
Paul la Hausse

Staffrider Magazine and Popular History: The Opportunities and Challenges of Personal Testimony
A.W. Oliphant

Developments in Popular History in the Western Cape in the 1980s
Andre Odendaal

The Write Your Own History Project
Leslie Witz

BOOK REVIEWS

Popular struggle: Black South African Opposition in Transformation
C.R.D. Halisi

Buthelezi, Inkatha, and the Problem of Ethnic Nationalism in South Africa
Chris Lowe

Life Histories
Motlatsi Thabane

South African People's History
David Anthony

Rethinking Culture?
Ari Sitas

Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It?
Joshua Brown

THE ABUSABLE PAST
R.J. Lambrose

OBITUARY

C.L.R. James, Revolutionary Historian, 1901-1988
Paul Buhle

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