Books
Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa (2012)
In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of...
Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas (2002)
A unique and important study, Stepping Forward examines the experiences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black...
Articles
The Cabra Dominican Sisters and the ‘Open Schools’ Movement in Apartheid South Africa (with Margaret Kelly), International Studies in Catholic Education (2012)
In January 1976, the Cabra Dominican Sisters in South Africa and the Association of Women...
Silence, Disobedience, and African Catholic Sisters in Apartheid South Africa, African Studies Review (2011)
This article considers the choices made during the apartheid era by Catholic sisters who were...
Embracing Activism in Apartheid South Africa: The Sisters of Mercy in Bophuthatswana, 1974–94 (with Jean N. Evans), The Catholic Historical Review (2008)
In South Africa in the latter half of the twentieth century, the Church shifted from...
Zenzele: African Women’s Self-Help Organizations in South Africa, 1927-1998, African Studies Review (2004)
The Zenzele clubs of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, which date from the late...