Tiffany Willoughby-Herard

"Sasinda and Siselapha (Still Here) is a fearless interdisciplinary collection of contemporary criticism in the arts and humanities. Authors examine the period after the legal end of apartheid across genre. Nthabiseng Motsemme examines how women's testimonies at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission drew on African traditional religions; Sharlene Khan explores the hateful art criticism that has become the norm in response to women artists; Peter Hudson scrutinizes the colonial unconscious reproducing itself through capitalist property relations; Natalia Molebatsi theorizes about the poetry scene and cross-generational healing; Ashraf Jamal asks how "African" is African art; Bhavisha Panchia offers a provocative argument for the use of laughter, humor and play as cultural repertoire; Derilene (Dee) Marco studies the cinematic legacies of Coetzee's Disgrace; Robert Muponde and Abebe Zegeye write about the legacies of "white writing." Tiffany Willoughby-Herard foregrounds preeminent theorists in feminist African and African Diaspora Studies from June Jordan to Sibongile Khumalo to Mary Rahube to offer us renderings of the meanings of an ongoing and spirit-filled struggle with potential victory. This book is an important contribution to the study of culture in the new dispensation in South Africa and beyond"--

"A pathbreaking history of the development of scientific racism, white nationalism, and segregationist philanthropy in the U.S. and South Africa in the early 20th century, Waste of a White Skin focuses on the American Carnegie Corporation's study of race in South Africa, The Poor White Study, and its influence on the creation of apartheid. This book demonstrates the ways in which U.S. elites supported apartheid and Afrikaner Nationalism in the critical period prior to 1948 through philanthropic interventions and shaping scholarly knowledge production. Rather than comparing racial democracies and their engagement with scientific racism, Willoughby-Herard outlines the ways in which a racial regime of 'global whiteness' constitutes domestic racial policies and in part animates black consciousness in seemingly disparate and discontinuous racial democracies. This book uses key paradigms in black political thought--black feminism, black internationalism, and the black radical tradition--to provide a richer account of poverty and work. Much of the scholarship on whiteness in South Africa overlooks the complex politics of white poverty and what they mean for the making of black political action and black people's presence in the economic system"--Provided by publisher.

"Domestic and international health activism and health policy are focal points in this volume of the National Political Science Review series, a publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment demonstrates the continuing importance of the 'medical civil rights movement,' through examples of activism of women of color in AIDS service organizations, around their health issues, and in the struggle for racial equity in health care in Brazil. This volume also examines the marked rise in American racial tensions during the Obama administration. Spikes in police and vigilante violence, as well as fear of a reversion to re-segregated schools have brought a new urgency to black political activism. Contributions to this volume explore the effect of race on American attitudes toward immigration policy and reform, black state legislators and American morality politics, the historically disproportionate influence of Southern whites in American politics, and the undermining of school desegregation laws with contemporary 'nullification' strategies. The volume's 'Trends' section, features conversations on the #BlackLivesMatter movement in Los Angeles, the 2016 presidential election, and examines the teaching of the Trayvon Martin story at the University of California, Irvine. The volume also includes a diverse selection of book reviews"--Provided by publisher.