Required Readings (on Talis)

Bill Freund. The African City: A History (Cambridge, 2007), Read chapter 3, Colonialism and Urbanisation pp. 65-106. Ebook

Cathérine Coquéry-vidrovitch. Racial and social zoning in African cities from colonization to post independence in Beyond Empire and Nation: The Decolonization of African and Asian societies, 1930s-1970s, 2012, pp. 267-286, Ebook

Teresa Barnes. "Am I a Man?": Gender and the Pass Laws in Urban Colonial Zimbabwe, 1930-80 African Studies Review

Further Readings (on Talis)

Seminar Questions

1. How did colonial ideas about race and ethnicity shape life in towns and cities?

2. In what ways did race rather than class matter in colonial urban societies?

3. How effective were colonial attempts to control the mobility of African subjects?

4. To what extent did life in colonial cities foster the development of new urban identities?