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Debriefing

I hope you’ll all understand that I am taking a few days to decompress, get my life back together, sort through mail, return to a semblence of a normal home life, wade through 2000 or so emails thsat I either left unopened or simply unaddressed, re-establish a writing schedule, teach my summer grad class, deal with university bureaucracy, prepare for fall semester, and give myself some critical distance from the World Cup so I can start dealing with the “what it all means” issues about which I’ll be writing.

Expect normal posting to resume in the next few days.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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