Dartmouth Events

Dr. Khwezi Mkhize, "1936, or Fascism and the end of the Liberal Franchise"

Dr. Mkhize of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, will share portions of his current book project, "A Home-Made Empire: South Africa and the Imperium before WW II."

Monday, May 20, 2019
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Carson Hall L01
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

This talk, drawn from Mkhize’s current book project A Home-Made Empire: South Africa and the Imperium before World War II, will explore the responses of black South Africans to two events that galvanised their political imaginations: the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and the Hertzog Bills which effectively brought to an end the liberal franchise for Africans in the Union of South Africa. In reading the two events as part of the same surge of racism, black intellectuals made important connections between state racism in South Africa and European fascism, at times reading them as analogous. This talk explores these resonances of fascism in South Africa and radical black intellectuals’ responses to them.

For more information, contact:
Jeremy A. Dell

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.