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Extreme apartheid: the South African system of migrant labour and its hostels 1663 299 0 18 1980
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"What is it to be a man?" Rites, hashtags, outrage 129 42 0 3 174
Do not make Africa an object of exploitation again 121 49 0 4 174
Interrogating conceptions of manhood, sexuality and cultural identity 103 47 0 13 163
Black Panther: a reception analysis 125 22 0 9 156
Quilts: Unfolding personal and public histories in South Africa and the United States 122 17 0 13 152
On Oyèrónké Oyèwùmí, colonial Afro-masculinities and the subjection of African cultural praxis in Inxeba 109 34 0 3 146
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Contextualisation, part 1: Queer cinema and the global 65 56 0 0 121
The march continues: A critique of The Long March to Freedom statue collection exhibited in Century City 93 12 0 13 118
Layers of woundedness in Inxeba: masculinities disrupted, denied and defamed 95 21 0 0 116
The blood-sucker bird: A woven narrative of exploitation and dependency 64 28 0 21 113
Killmonger: scoring modes and representation in Black Panther 85 17 0 10 112
Minna Keene: a neglected pioneer 81 27 0 1 109
'Quiet Dream': Vietnamese women and marriage migration 92 12 0 5 109
Rethinking gender and conduits of control: A feminist review 79 12 0 7 98
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Visual communicative practices: Towards a more inclusive visual rhetoric? 67 19 0 9 95
Tomboys: Performing gender in popular fiction 80 10 0 5 95
The Big Druid's photographs of trees: Art and knowledge 71 11 0 9 91
Other stories: Asger Jorn's and Pierre Wemaëre's Le Long Voyage, 1959-1960 45 32 0 13 90
Hearing the pain of others: Engineering affect and empathy through the soundscapes of This Song is For... (2019) and Love Story (2017) 52 16 0 16 84
Sonic fingerprints: on the situated use of voice in performative interventions by Donna Kukama, Lerato Shadi and Mbali Khoza 61 13 0 8 82
Sedition à la mode? The transfiguration of Steve Biko in post-apartheid fashion and décor design 53 15 0 14 82
Reading gamefully: videogamification as multimodal pedagogy for high school setworks 67 7 0 8 82
A sex-critical reading of the homosexual sex acts depicted in Inxeba 54 22 0 2 78
The material of mourning: Paul Emmanuel's Lost Men as counter-memorials 52 11 0 14 77
In/On the Bones: species meanings and the racialising discourse of animality in the Homo naledi controversy 54 17 0 0 71
Collaborative audio-visual rhetoric: A self-reflexive review of collaboration in anthropological film projects 36 25 0 9 70
Remembering the Pass - Exploring curatorial reenactment in PASS-AGES: References & Footnotes 42 15 0 11 68
An analysis of the intersections between race and class in representations of Black and white gay men in QueerLife 31 31 0 6 68
The Invisibilities of an Afrofuturistic utopia - the erasure of Black queer bodies in Black Panther 47 16 0 4 67
'This is not a pig': Settler innocence and visuality of zoos 38 16 0 10 64
A contemporary Madonna from the Eastern Cape: Female agency in the Keiskamma Art Project's Rose Altarpiece 39 12 0 12 63
Look and see: Optical technology and disciplinary mechanisms in Topps Trading Cards, 1948-1952 39 13 0 11 63
Embedded participation in the architectural curriculum towards engendering urban citizenship in graduates 42 9 0 8 59
Liberatory violence or the gift: paths to decoloniality in Black Panther 29 11 0 19 59
Repetitions repeatedly repeated: mimetic desire, ressentiment, and mimetic crisis in Julian Rosefeld's Manifesto (2015) 41 9 0 3 53
Educating citizen designers in South Africa 45 7 0 0 52
The caretaker of wounds: pictures of the deposition of Christ in the work of Marcus Glaser 43 6 0 2 51
Discursive cuts, receptive wounds: notes on the reception of Inxeba/The Wound 28 22 0 0 50
Complications and concessions: ecofeminism in Black Panther 36 9 0 4 49
The spectre-image: A hauntology of Skoonheid and Kanarie 32 10 0 4 46
Accounting for the popularity of Black Panther among Black South African women in Soweto township 32 5 0 7 44
Black mirrors and zombies: the antinomy of distance in participatory spectatorship of smart phones 31 12 0 0 43
The becoming-flower of video games: a Deleuzoguattarian analysis of Thatgamecompany's Flower (2009) 36 5 0 2 43
Special Section Editorial 37 6 0 0 43
The importance of context-relative knowledge for illustrating wordless picture books 30 5 0 6 41
To Make See and to Let Die: photography and testimony 29 11 0 0 40
All that glitters is not gold: Counter penetrating in the name of Blackness and queerness, or, Athi-Patra Ruga's camp act in the dirt 29 6 0 4 39
Hidden Pretoria 32 6 0 0 38
Themed Section Editorial 32 6 0 0 38
When is a choice not a choice?: Experiences of individual agency and autonomy by South African female breadwinners 20 13 0 5 38
African somaesthetics: cultures, feminisms, politics 28 10 0 0 38
'Shame, Seething, Basic Shame... It's all About the Cock': reading Nakhane Touré's Piggy boy's blues (2015) after Inxeba 18 16 0 0 34
[Un]performing voice: Simnikiwe Buhlungu/Euridice Zaituna Kala 23 6 0 5 34
Re-forming Hollywood's imagination: beyond the box office and into the boardroom 18 10 0 5 33
Special Section Editorial 22 8 0 0 30
Identity in interaction: sub-cultural intersubjectivities in popular radio conversation on Inxeba 19 8 0 2 29
Guernicas - A Commentary on the South African Condition Review of Post-apartheid Guernica (10 October 2021 - 30 January 2022) 17 8 0 0 25
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