Neil Roos is author of Ordinary Springboks: White Servicemen and Social Justice in South Africa, 1939–1961. He is currently Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities and professor of history at the University of Fort Hare, South Africa. He is also co-implementer of the South African Department of Higher Education and Training's Future Professors Program.
"Neil Roos's Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society is an outstanding
work of scholarship. This is a book which will be both a signal
contribution to the social history of Southern Africa, but also of
considerable interest to scholars working on issues of race in the
United States and elsewhere. It's lively, engaging and personal
style, combines academic rigor with accessibility."—Jonathan
Hyslop, Colgate University
"This is really a remarkable book, most notably for how the
narrative of apartheid society in its early years is meshed with
selected visual and textual moments from the author's family
autobiography. What is important is that for the most part the
linkages are not always self-evident, and it is left to the reader
to make the connections."—Leslie Witz - University of the Western
Cape), H-S Africa
"Neil Roos's book is a landmark book in South African
historiography. This is a very compelling book, beautifully written
and structured. Social history is not easy to write because it
demands that a mass of detail, ordinarily considered uninteresting
because it documents the unremarkable, the quotidian, be rendered
as a narrative that eschews great events."—Robert Morrell, Critical
Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies
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