Martin L Boston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1744158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin L Boston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin L |
| FAMILY NAME | Boston |
| SIGNATURE | BOSTON M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Sacramento |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1658-6387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading Between the Lines
Based on archival research conducted at the Bailey’s African History Archive (BAHA) in Johannesburg, this article explores how the South African edition of Drum magazine covered the South African and international superstar singer, Miriam Makeba, prior to and as she left South Africa for the world’s stage in 1959, and into the mid 1960s while she was beginning her exiled life in the United States. I analyse Makeba’s life through Drum using the mo…
Dawn Breaks
This article is an auto-ethnographic study that explores how its author came to study South African exiles after stumbling upon archival material of a radio segment called “Dawn Breaks,” while at the Liberation Archives at The University of Fort Hare in Alice, South Africa. Dawn Breaks was the African National Congress (ANC) Women’s Section’s weekly 30-min radio segment of the exiled ANC’s radio programme, “Radio Freedom,” that broadcasted pri-ma…
The spiritual journey to becoming a history-keeper of South African liberation movements
The editors of this collection reflect on the ways that studying the anti-apartheid liberation movement is a consciousness raising process. We consider the cosmological, spiritual, and affective impact of tarrying with liberation histories. From Vincent Harding’s (1981) conceptualisation of a ‘deep river’ and Cedric J. Robinson’s (1983) notion of a ‘Black Radical Tradition’ to the ‘endarkened feminist storytelling’ offered by Cynthia Dillard in 2…
Dawn Breaks
This article is an auto-ethnographic study that explores how its author came to study South African exiles after stumbling upon archival material of a radio segment called “Dawn Breaks,” while at the Liberation Archives at The University of Fort Hare in Alice, South Africa. Dawn Breaks was the African National Congress (ANC) Women’s Section’s weekly 30-min radio segment of the exiled ANC’s radio programme, “Radio Freedom,” that broadcasted pri-ma…
Dawn Breaks
This article is an auto-ethnographic study that explores how its author came to study South African exiles after stumbling upon archival material of a radio segment called “Dawn Breaks,” while at the Liberation Archives at The University of Fort Hare in Alice, South Africa. Dawn Breaks was the African National Congress (ANC) Women’s Section’s weekly 30-min radio segment of the exiled ANC’s radio programme, “Radio Freedom,” that broadcasted pri-ma…
The spiritual journey to becoming a history-keeper of South African liberation movements
The editors of this collection reflect on the ways that studying the anti-apartheid liberation movement is a consciousness raising process. We consider the cosmological, spiritual, and affective impact of tarrying with liberation histories. From Vincent Harding’s (1981) conceptualisation of a ‘deep river’ and Cedric J. Robinson’s (1983) notion of a ‘Black Radical Tradition’ to the ‘endarkened feminist storytelling’ offered by Cynthia Dillard in 2…
Reading Between the Lines
Based on archival research conducted at the Bailey’s African History Archive (BAHA) in Johannesburg, this article explores how the South African edition of Drum magazine covered the South African and international superstar singer, Miriam Makeba, prior to and as she left South Africa for the world’s stage in 1959, and into the mid 1960s while she was beginning her exiled life in the United States. I analyse Makeba’s life through Drum using the mo…
Archaeology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · South African History and Culture (2 works)