Isaacman

Allen Isaacman and Jeanne Penvenne, in their sensitive studies of forced cotton production and African working class history in Lourenço Marques (respectively), teased from their extensive collections of oral interviews from rural and urban Mozambique new meanings of Portuguese colonial ruleand sometimes unexpected articulations between gender, race and classnot accessible through conventional archival sources.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

In their most recent workIsaacman's (with Barbara Isaacman) on the history of the Chikunda, and Penvenne's on female wage-workers in late colonial Lourenço Marquesthese scholars delve more deeply into the explanatory potential of oral testimony, and surface with powerful arguments that use experiential memory and individual negotiations of local gender systems to challenge theories of ethnicity and urbanization in southern Africa.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

As my Ph.D. advisers at the University of Minnesota, Allen Isaacman and Susan Geiger were as nurturing and exacting, affirming and skeptical, patient and firm as any graduate student could want.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

Note 89: Allen Isaacman, Cotton is the Mother of Poverty: Peasants, Work, and Rural Struggle in Colonial Mozambique, 1938-1961 (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1996), 214.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

First, I wish to thank my adviser, Allen Isaacman, whose guidance, friendship and intellectual support have accompanied me throughout the years of my graduate education and far beyond.

'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

In his introduction, in fact, Isaacman acknowledges the "hybridity" of this text, which was based on a combination of Honwana family stories, interviews, and Honwana's own written memoirs.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

The most amusing part of the movie, other than the way Courtney Love seems to be portraying herself, is the interplay between Flynt and his attorney Alan Isaacman.

Last Night's Movie 2004

The real-life Isaacman can be found at Isaacman, Kaufman & Painter in Beverly Hills.

Last Night's Movie 2004

The real-life Isaacman can be found at Isaacman, Kaufman & Painter in Beverly Hills.

Last Night's Movie 2004

Isaacman is next scheduled to appear April 6 for another status date.

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