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Me on Oprah!!

Sub-Saharan Africa

by  |  on May 5th, 2011  |  1 comment

In what has to qualify as a career high-water mark, on yesterday’s Oprah honoring the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, yours truly got a bit of face time. They showed clips from the Freedom Riders documentary (out on The American Experience on PBS on May 16) and used one of the clips in which I appeared.

There is no purpose to this post other than to brag.

 

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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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