Les Switzer
Les Switzer is a professor in the School of Communication and an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Houston. He is the author of many books and articles on South Africa, including South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960.
Author of…
Media and Dependency in South Africa
A Case Study of the Press and the Ciskei “Homeland”
Switzer looks at how South Africa’s communications industry, the largest and most powerful on the continent, promotes dependency among the subject African populations. This study of the Ciskei “Homeland”, which has long been a fountainhead of African nationalism and a zone of conflict between blacks and whites, focuses on the privately owned, commercial press and its role in helping to frame a consensus in support of the political, economic and ideological values of the ruling alliance.…
Editor of…
South Africa’s Resistance Press
Alternative Voices in the Last Generation under Apartheid
South Africa's Resistance Press is a collection of essays celebrating the contributions of scores of newspapers, newsletters, and magazines that confronted the state in the generation after 1960.…
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Emeritus administrator and professor of English at Eastern Illinois University.… - Les Switzer
Professor in the School of Communication and an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Houston… - Ibrahim Syukri
