South Africa And the United States Compared The Best of Safundi 2003-2004

Comprised of ten of the best articles published in Safundi the last two years, this volume brings together comparative U.S. and South African scholarship that is both highly engaging and useful in the classroom. The articles address such topics as the death of Amy Biehl, the politics of African Americans in U.S.-South African diplomacy in the early 1900s, the teaching of South African literature and psychology in the United States, and, in an interview with Noam Chomsky, the ?contours of the contemporary world order.' Each of the included articles appeared in Safundi: The Journal of South African and AmericanComparative Studies, an online, peer-reviewed, quarterly academic journal with more than two thousand members worldwide. The name ?Safundi? is an invented word created from the following components: ?S? represents South Africa, ?a? symbolizes America, and ?fundi? originates from the Xhosa verb ?-funda,? or ?to learn.'Offenburger, Andrew is the author of 'South Africa And the United States Compared The Best of Safundi 2003-2004', published 0012 under ISBN 9780972695718 and ISBN 0972695710.