Carolyn E Holmes (@carolyneholmes.bsky.social)

Here I am, again, talking about the Afrikaner refugees, but in the context of the last 100 years: "South Africa has always been a shadow case for the US…It’s a way of talking about US politics without ever saying civil rights, without ever saying United States." theconversation.com/the-american...

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The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in South Africa’s white Afrikaaner minority. https://theconversation.com/the-american-fixation-on-white-afrikaners-in-south-africa-stretches-back-nearly-a-century-270145