Africa

United States of America

Associate Professor of History

Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

jeanne.penvenne@tufts.edu

Department of History
Tufts University
105 East Hall - The Green
Medford, Massachusetts 02155 USA

phone: 617-628-5000 x5460
fax: 617-627-3479

Mozambique

Labor and social history of Mozambique and southern Africa.

Labor and social history of Mozambique and southern Africa.

African workers and colonial racisim: Mozambican strategies and struggles
in Lourenço Marques, 1877-1962. (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann;
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press; London: J. Currey, c1995)

Trabalhadores de Lourenço Marques (1870-1974): antologia de
artigos. Estudos (Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique); 9.
(Maputo: Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, 1993)

Journal articles and book chapters:

"A Tapestry of Conflict: Mozambique 1960-1995," in David Birmingham and
Phyllis Martin, eds. History of Central Africa; The Contemporary Years
(London, Longman, 1998): 230-266.

"João dos Santos Albasini (1876-1922); The Contradictions of
Politics and Identity in Colonial Mozambique," Journal of African History,
Vol. 37, No. 3, (1996):417-464.

"Seeking the Factory for Women, Mozambican Urbanization in the Late
Colonial Era," Journal of Urban History, Vol. 23 No. 3 (March, 1997):
342-379.

"'We are all Portuguese!': Challenging the Political Economy of
Assimilation, Lourenco Marques, 1870 to 1933," in Leroy Vail, ed.,
The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa (Berkeley: University of
California, 1989): 255-288.

"Labor Struggles at the Port of Lourenco Marques, 1900-1933," Review;
Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies,
Historical Systems and Civilizations, "The Struggle for Southern Africa,
Special Issue Dedicated to the Memory of Ruth First, 8, 2 (1984):
249-285.

'Here Everyone Walked with Fear': The Mozambican Labor System and the
Workers of Lourenco Marques, 1945-1962," in Frederick Cooper, ed.,
Struggle for the City: Migrant Labor, Capital and the State (Berkeley,
Sage, 1983): 131-166.

Labor ; social history ; racism ; politics ; Southern Africa