“…In this respect, we must also understand black South African‐African American transnational studies to be operating in the orbit of a second methodological framework, the general arena of South African and United States comparative studies. Initially, this field was the province of comparative history—solidified by George Fredrickson’s White Supremacy and John Cell’s The Highest Stage of White Supremacy (both published in 1982) and followed by more recent historical and political science studies by James Campbell, Anthony Marx, Robert Massie, John Higginson, and Francis Njubi Nesbitt, among others, that sought to define past historical relationships between the states, and populations, of South Africa and the United States. A more extensive interdisciplinary field has since emerged, one focused on a wide array of past and ongoing social, economic, religious, ideological, and cultural intersections, parallels, and divergences between the two countries or their various constituencies.…”