Published: 2017-06-13

Foreword

Gary Kline

v–vi

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In order to provide an international structure for the humane and scientific study of peoples, problems, and issues in the world’s developing...

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A Message from the Editor

Gary Kline

vii–x

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The spring 2017 issue of the Journal of Global South Studies commences a new chapter in the history of our journal and of the association from...

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Asserting Agency by Negotiating Patriarchy: Nigerian Women's Experiences within University Administrative Structures

Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika

1–21

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This paper focuses on how African women negotiate the administrative structures of universities as subordinates as well as agents, based on...

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"The Coolies Here": Exploring the Construction of an Indian "Race" in South Africa

Kathryn Pillay

22–49

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The aim of this article is to reveal how a category of people that did not exist before in South Africa was created when the first group of...

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The Historical Orbit of Eritrea's Agony

Alemseged Abbay

50–71

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Their suffering under racist Italian colonialism pushed Eritreans to retreat into their millennia-old Ethiopian identity. However, suffocation...

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West African Women and the Development Question in the Post–World War II Economy: The Experience of Nigeria's Benin Province in the Oil Palm Industry

Fred Ekpe F. Ayokhai, Bwashi Rufai

72–95

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West African women as typified by the experience of women in the oil palm industry in Nigeria’s Benin Province participated actively in the...

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Cameroon: The Continuous Search for National Integration

Emmanuel Anyefru

96–118

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The federal constitution of 1961 stated that the Federal Republic of Cameroon shall be constituted from the territory of the Republic of...

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Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011–12 by Daniel Maxwell and Nisar Majid

Angel R. Ackerman

119–120

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Maxwell, Daniel and Nisar Majid. Famine in Somalia: Competing Imperatives, Collective Failures, 2011–12. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016....

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The Church We Want: African Catholics Look to Vatican III by Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator

Peter Admirand

121–122

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Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E., ed. The Church We Want: African Catholics Look to Vatican III. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2016. Review by Peter...

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Mexican American Literature: A Portable Anthology edited by Dagoberto Gilb and Ricardo Angel Gilb

Yoly Zentella

122–124

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Gilb, Dagoberto and Ricardo Angel Gilb, eds., Mexican American Literature: A Portable Anthology. Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s Press, 2016....

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Now Peru Is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist by Manuel Llamojha Mitma and Jaymie Patricia Heilman

William O. Deaver

124–126

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Llamojha Mitma, Manuel and Jaymie Patricia Heilman. Now Peru Is Mine: The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist. Durham, NC: Duke University...

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The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space by Ulrich Oslender

Jane M. Rausch

126–128

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Oslender, Ulrich. The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,...

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Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic by Eric Paul Roorda

Jeffery T. Morris

128–130

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Roorda, Eric Paul. Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. Review by Jeffery T. Morris.

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Disciplinary Conquests: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945 by Ricardo D. Salvatore

Evan C. Rothera

130–132

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Salvatore, Ricardo D. Disciplinary Conquests: U.S. Scholars in South America, 1900–1945. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Review by Evan...

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