2023-24 Academic Catalog

From the second half of the nineteenth century southern African men engaged in temporary migration to provide cheap labor in the gold mines of South Africa. Due to this gendered historical process of male labor extraction, the history of southern African masculinity has become part of the most recent approaches in African gender history. This seminar constitutes the history of southern African gender through the prism of migrant masculinities. It explores important categories of analysis for the history of southern African male migrancy through the reading of academic works that influenced the development of the field of African masculinities.