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Alex Lichtenstein

Alex Lichtenstein

Alex Lichtenstein, editor of the American Historical Review, teaches US and South African history at Indiana University. He is the author (with Rick Halpern) of Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid (Indiana University Press, 2016) and a frequent contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books. icon

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Apartheid in South Africa

Apartheid’s Paper Trail

By Alex Lichtenstein

Why did some Black South Africans directly collaborate with their oppressors, and what was their experience like?

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