Each year, the Colored working class of Cape Town Celebrates itself in a spectacular, lively Carnival Historian, photographer, and musician John Edwin Mason spent three Carnival seasons with one troup
Mason (history, University of Virginia) draws on Harvard sociologist Orlando Peterson's theory that a slave's social degradation rendered him socially dead in this examination of resistance among colo
What was it like to be a slave in colonial South Africa? What difference did freedom make? The questions themselves are simply put, but John Edwin Mason has found complex answers after delving deeply
