Africa

United States of America

Associate Professor of History

Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas

mcclendt@southwestern.edu

Southwestern University
1001 E. University Avenue
SU Box 7396
Georgetown, Texas 78626-6144 USA

phone: 512 863-1414
fax: 512 863-1535

South Africa

colonial state; customary law; gender and generation; land and
labor; 19th and 20th century southern Africa.

African (esp. South Africa and colonialism) and African-American
history; colonialism; law.

Genders and Generations Apart: Labor Tenants and Customary Law in
Segregation-Era South Africa, 1920s to 1940s (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann,
2002).

"Coercion and Conversation: African Voices in the Making of Customary Law
in Natal," in Clifton Crais, ed., The Culture of Power in Southern Africa:
Essays on State Formation and the Political Imagination (Portsmouth, NH:
Heinemann, 2003).

"The Man Who Would Be Inkosi: Civilizing Missions in Shepstone's Early
Career," Journal of Southern African Studies (forthcoming).

"'A Dangerous Doctrine': Twins, Ethnography, and Inheritance in Colonial
Africa," Journal of Legal Pluralism, 39 (1997): 121-40.

"'Hiding Cattle on the White Man's Farm': Cattle Loans and Commercial Farms
in Natal, 1930-1950," African Economic History, 25 (1997): 43-58.

"Tradition and Domestic Struggle in the Courtroom: Customary Law and the
Control of Women in Segregation-Era Natal," The International Journal of
African Historical Studies, 28, no. 3 (1995): 527-61.

law ; labor ; politics ; colonialism ; history ; Southern Africa.