This book has a twofold goal: first, the contributors aim to expose the racist and sexist practices that still suffuse the instutitional culture of South-African universities. Secondly, they seek to apply the alternative theoretical and methodological frameworks of black feminist thought. However particular their individual stories, this books offers rich material of interest to women scholars everywhere.
Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela (Ph.D. University of Illinois) is Assistant Professor in the Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education program at Michigan State University. She is the author of Voices of Conflict: Desegregating South-African University (Garland Science 2001).
Zine Magubane (Ph.D. Harvard University) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa (University of Chicago Press 2003).