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Out the Back: Race and Reinvention in Johannesburg’s Garden Cottages

Out the Back: Race and Reinvention in Johannesburg’s Garden Cottages

The outdoor "maid’s room" was a common suburban feature of apartheid Johannesburg. In the 21st century many of these spaces have been reimagined as "garden cottages" and transformed into middle class assets, but traces of their segregated histories persist.
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Chinese Deadwood in Malawi

August 19, 2010
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Chinese <i>Deadwood</i> in Malawi

American TV in Malawi, by way of China and South Africa. What are we to make of the cultural intermediaries, and what does this say about global media flow?
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