Episode 066
Miners, Marikana, and Photography
Alex Lichtenstein (History, Indiana U.) on the history of the struggles for class and racial justice in both South Africa and the U.S. The focus is on black trade unions and the apartheid state, the 2012 Marikana mine massacre, and labor in Jim Crow U.S. South, as well as an upcoming exhibition of Margaret Bourke-White's South African photographs of the apartheid era.
Introduction
Journey to U.S. and South African History
South African Labor
Marakana Massacre
Marakana and the Post-Colonial State
Cold War Politics and South Africa
Echoes in Marakana
History of Photography
Teaching African History
Outro