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Deborah Posel

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Publications

23

Citations

1.9K

H-Index

18

Active since

1983

Affiliations

University of the Witwatersrand(Current)

Institute for Social and Economic Research

University of Cape Town

University Consortium of Pori

Deborah Posel is an author at University of the Witwatersrand specializing in social sciences, south african history, and african social change.

Top concepts

Social SciencesSouth African HistoryAfrican Social ChangeBlack StudiesAfrican PoliticsColonialismAfrican HistoryAfrican StudiesAfrican Political ThoughtAnti-racism

Publications per year

1983–2015

23

Publications

23

Race as Common Sense: Racial Classification in Twentieth-Century South Africa

Deborah Posel · African Studies Review · 2001 · 364 citations

Ethnicity, Critical Race Theory, Colonialism +24

What's in a name? Racial categorisations under apartheid and their afterlife

Deborah Posel · Transformation An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies · 2001 · 184 citations

Ethnicity, African History, Culture +14

Commissioning the Past: Understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Annelies Verdoolaege, Deborah Posel, Graeme Simpson et al. · African Studies Review · 2003 · 184 citations

African Law, South African History, Law +21

Races to consume: revisiting South Africa's history of race, consumption and the struggle for freedom

Deborah Posel · Ethnic and Racial Studies · 2010 · 172 citations

Critical Race Theory, Colonialism, South African History +21

The Making of Apartheid 1948-1961: Conflict and Compromise

Patrick Furlong, Deborah Posel · The International Journal of African Historical Studies · 1993 · 151 citations

Human Migration, Critical Race Theory, Second Phase +25

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