Zine Magubane is a scholar whose work focuses broadly on the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and post-colonial studies in the United States and Southern Africa.
[1] Her father, Bernard Magubane,[2] was a prominent South African scholar and one of the leading anti-apartheid activists based in the United States.
[4] In 2015, Magubane returned to the University of Cape Town when she accepted a six-month visiting professorship through the Van Zyl Slabbert Chair.
[6] Magubane is also the editor of Postmodernism, Postcoloniality, and African Studies, an interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars around the world that addresses race, gender, and identity.
Feminism, poststructuralism, race, and the curious theoretical odyssey of the 'Hottentot Venus,'" which seeks to expose colonial representations of black women as a social construction rather than a biological fact.