Alex Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Verso, 1996). He teaches U.S. and South African history at Indiana University, in Bloomington, and is a book review editor for the internet discussion group H-SAfrica.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Mining Nostalgia
An exhibit of apartheid-era photographs by David Goldblatt presents them without adequate context and loses a huge opportunity....
A Relic of Apartheid: Daniel Magaziner’s History of Art Education in South Africa
Alex Lichtenstein reviews Daniel Magaziner's "The Art of Life in South Africa."...
The Marikana Massacre: Five Years Later
Alex Lichtenstein reviews two new books on the Marikana Massacre....
Marikana, Part III: Democracy’s Sharpeville
The perpetrators of Marikana acted in the name of the post-apartheid social order governed by the ANC, South Africa’s former liberation movement, now in power for two decades....
Marikana, Part II: Looking For Answers to a South African Massacre
In a September 1, 2012 article for the Los Angeles Review of Books, historian Alex Lichtenstein examined the background of the ...
What Went Wrong At Marikana?
The massacre of 34 striking miners in South Africa...
Zimbabwe and the Politics of Impunity
Mugabe’s denials can and should now be read as a chilling reminder that the depths to which his regime has sunk today had already been charted...
