Zine Magubane

Zine Magubane is a scholar whose work focuses broadly on the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and post-colonial studies in the United States and Southern Africa. She has held professorial positions at various academic institutions in the United States and South Africa and has published several articles and books.

Early life and education

Magubane was born in Chicago, Illinois.[1] Her father, Bernard Magubane,[2] was a prominent South African scholar and one of the leading anti-apartheid activists based in the United States.[3]

Magubane received her undergraduate degree in politics at Princeton University, and obtained a masters and Ph.D degree in sociology from Harvard.[4]

Career

Magubane began her career as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town.[4] After a brief hiatus to do research with the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria, South Africa, Magubane returned to teaching.[4] She served as an Associate Professor of Sociology and African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before her current position as an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston College.[4] In 2015, Magubane returned to the University of Cape Town when she accepted a six-month visiting professorship through the Van Zyl Slabbert Chair.[2]

Academic work and publications

Magubane's work addresses intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and post-colonial studies.

Books

Magubane is the author of Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa, which explores colonial conceptions of blackness across England and South Africa and how these representations continue to influence ideas of race, gender, and class today.[5] She is the co-editor of Hear Our Voices: Race Gender and the Status of Black South African Women in the Academy, a book that highlights the institutional racism and sexism within the academy in South Africa.[6] Magubane is also the editor of Postmodernism, Postcoloniality, and African Studies, an interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars around the world that addresses race, gender, and identity.[7]

Articles

Magubane has published various articles in various publications since she began her academic career in 1994.[4] Her most cited article is "Which bodies matter? Feminism, poststructuralism, race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the 'Hottentot Venus,'" which seeks to expose colonial representations of black women as a social construction rather than a biological fact.[8] Magubane is also the author of "The (Product) Red Man’s Burden: Charity, Celebrity, and the Contradictions of Coevalness" in which she uses the concept of 'coevalness' to analyze Western, specifically celebrity, involvement in the Product Red campaign.[9] Other commonly cited articles by Magubane include "The Revolution Betrayed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Apartheid State,"[10] "Globalization and the South African Transformation: The Impact on Social Policy,"[11] and "Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semenya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory."[12]

References
  1. "Zine Magubane". www.press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  2. "One on one with Zine Magubane | Faculty of Humanities". www.humanities.uct.ac.za. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  3. "Professor Bernard Magubane | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  4. "Zine Magubane's Curriculum Vita" (PDF). Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  5. Magubane, Zine (2004). Bringing the Empire Home: Race, Class, and Gender in Britain and Colonial South Africa. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226501772. Reviews:
    • Dagut, Simon (May 2004). "Review". South African Historical Journal. 50 (1): 289–291. hdl:10520/EJC93553.
    • Ralph, Michael (2004). Africa Development. 29 (4): 147–148. JSTOR 24484558.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ross, Robert (November 2004). "Discourses of race and class in Britain and South Africa". The Journal of African History. 45 (3): 509–510. doi:10.1017/S0021853704329932. JSTOR 4100767.
    • Hall, Catherine (Winter 2004). Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies. 36 (4): 776–777. doi:10.2307/4054659. JSTOR 4054659.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Lester, Alan (December 2004). The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 10 (4): 910–911. JSTOR 3803865.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Scully, Pamela (2005). The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 38 (3): 546–547. JSTOR 40033975.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Crais, Clifton (Summer 2005). The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 36 (1): 87–88. doi:10.1162/0022195054025979. JSTOR 3656879.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Elbourne, Elizabeth (October 2005). The American Historical Review. 110 (4): 1135–1134. doi:10.1086/ahr.110.4.1135. JSTOR 10.1086/ahr.110.4.1135.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Dauphin, Alexandre (2006). "Review". Journal des Africanistes. 76 (2): 171–172.
    • Adjaye, Joseph K. (2006). "Review". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 26 (3): 523–524. doi:10.1215/1089201x-2006-034.
    • Mackenzie, John M. (August 2006). Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. 76 (3): 444–445. doi:10.3366/afr.2006.0045. JSTOR 40022750.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Bhambra, Gurminder K. (September 2006). The British Journal of Sociology. 57 (3): 538–539. doi:10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00123_15.x.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Keegan, Tim (November 2006). Kronos. 32 (32): 269–271. JSTOR 41056572.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Goswami, Manu (January 2007). American Journal of Sociology. 112 (4): 1254–1256. doi:10.1086/513542. JSTOR 10.1086/513542.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Drew, Allison (February 2007). The English Historical Review. 122 (495): 276–277. doi:10.1093/ehr/cel457. JSTOR 20108287.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. Mabokela, Reitumetse Obakeng; Magubane, Zine, eds. (2005). Hear Our Voices: Race Gender and the Status of Black South African Women in the Academy. Imagined South Africa. 8. Brill. ISBN 978-18-68-88294-6. Reviews:
    • Vokwana, Thembela (2005). "Review" (PDF). Feminist Africa. 4.
    • Jackson, Sandra (April 2005). African Identities. 3 (1): 105–110. doi:10.1080/14725840500079987.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Kim, Audrey (July 2017). "Chapter 10". In Mitchell, Michael (ed.). Charting the Range of Black Politics. Routledge. pp. 102–104. doi:10.4324/9781315081502-10.
  7. Magubane, Zine (2003). Postmodernism, Postcoloniality, and African Studies. Africa World Press. ISBN 9781592210305. Review:
    • Hill, Jonathan N. C. (June 2006). The Journal of Modern African Studies. 44 (2): 338–340. doi:10.1017/S0022278X06241752. JSTOR 3876163.CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. Magubane, Zine (2001-12-01). "Which Bodies Matter? Feminism, Poststructuralism, Race, and the Curious Theoretical Odyssey of the 'Hottentot Venus'". Gender & Society. 15 (6): 816–834. doi:10.1177/089124301015006003. ISSN 0891-2432.
  9. Magubane, Zine (2008). "The (Product) Red Man's Burden: Charity, Celebrity, and the Contradictions of Coevalness" (PDF). The Journal of Pan African Studies. 2.
  10. Magubane, Zine (2004-09-16). "The Revolution Betrayed? Globalization, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Apartheid State". The South Atlantic Quarterly. 103 (4): 657–671. doi:10.1215/00382876-103-4-657. ISSN 1527-8026.
  11. Magubane, Zine (2002). "Globalization and the South African Transformation: The Impact on Social Policy". Africa Today. 49 (4): 89–110. doi:10.1353/at.2003.0045. ISSN 0001-9887. JSTOR 4187532.
  12. Magubane, Zine (2014-03-01). "Spectacles and Scholarship: Caster Semenya, Intersex Studies, and the Problem of Race in Feminist Theory". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 39 (3): 761–785. doi:10.1086/674301. ISSN 0097-9740.
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