The academic boycott isolated South African scholarship until the early 1990s

Evidence

The debate about apartheid and capitalism wound down from the late 1980s, with the publication of works which challenged the terms of debate, producing more nuanced versions of the nature and effects of class together with more complex and uneven versions of the relationship between apartheid and capitalism (e.g., Greenberg, 1987; Wolpe, 1988; Posel, 1991; O’Meara, 1996). … During the apartheid era, international opposition to apartheid included an academic boycott of exchange between local and foreign scholars, which tended to keep South Africans isolated and inhibited foreign scholars from visiting and researching in the country. With the cessation of the boycott in the early 1990s, research and writing on South Africa seem to be becoming more common within international disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals, not simply within the sphere of African Studies - a development which is likely to foreground an interest in race through the prism of other theoretical and historical literatures. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 586

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to accounts of other academic boycotts (apartheid-era, South Africa sanctions generally) and to the debate over whether scholarly boycotts aid or harm intellectual communities.
• SEED: Possible essay angle: the academic boycott as a case study in whether cutting scholarly ties promotes or delays intellectual change within a pariah state.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 586