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Mining Nostalgia
An exhibit of apartheid-era photographs by David Goldblatt presents them without adequate context and loses a huge opportunity....
Alex Lichtenstein is the author of Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Verso, 1996). He teaches U.S. and South African history at Indiana University, in Bloomington, and is a book review editor for the internet discussion group H-SAfrica.