White On Black In South Africa

Author : Carolyn Holmes
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472054633

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The Black and White Rainbow by Carolyn Holmes Pdf

Nation-building imperatives compel citizens to focus on what makes them similar and what binds them together, forgetting what makes them different. Democratic institution building, on the other hand, requires fostering opposition through conducting multiparty elections and encouraging debate. Leaders of democratic factions, like parties or interest groups, can consolidate their power by emphasizing difference. But when held in tension, these two impulses—toward remembering difference and forgetting it, between focusing on unity and encouraging division—are mutually constitutive of sustainable democracy. ?Based on ethnographic and interview-based fieldwork conducted in 2012–13, The Black and White Rainbow: Reconciliation, Opposition, and Nation-Building in Democratic South Africa explores various themes of nation- and democracy-building, including the emotional and banal content of symbols of the post-apartheid state, the ways that gender and race condition nascent nationalism, the public performance of nationalism and other group-based identities, integration and sharing of space, language diversity, and the role of democratic functioning including party politics and modes of opposition. Each of these thematic chapters aims to explicate a feature of the multifaceted nature of identity-building, and link the South African case to broader literatures on both nationalism and democracy.

Author : Ferial Haffajee
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770104419

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What if there were no whites in South Africa? by Ferial Haffajee Pdf

In What if there were no whites in South Africa? Ferial Haffajee examines South Africa’s history and present in the light of a provocative question that yields some thought-provoking discussion and analysis. From round-table discussions with influential South Africans, to research, personal thoughts and powerful anecdotes, Ferial takes the reader through the rocky terrain of race rage in our country and grapples with what it means to be South African in 2015.

Author : Michael Wade
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349225460

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White on Black in South Africa by Michael Wade Pdf

The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the larger culture of the English-speaking world while rejecting its unspoken consensual positions on many basic issues. This study analyses texts of different kinds produced by the group to examine the way these deviant English-speakers see themselves, and particularly how this self-image is influenced by the presence of the blacks who constitute a crucial part of their perceptual field. Economically powerful but politically marginal for many years, the English-speaking whites have always been mediators of their community's experience to the world culture of the English language; the study shows how the act of mediation operates in more than one direction, producing a literary tradition that is essentially - and perhaps surprisingly - dissident.

Author : Juhan Kuus,Trevor McDonald
Publisher : Mississauga, Ont. : Cupress (Canada)
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : UOM:49015001395434

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South Africa in Black and White by Juhan Kuus,Trevor McDonald Pdf

Author : Mohamed Adhikari
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896804425

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Not White Enough, Not Black Enough by Mohamed Adhikari Pdf

The concept of Colouredness—being neither white nor black—has been pivotal to the brand of racial thinking particular to South African society. The nature of Coloured identity and its heritage of oppression has always been a matter of intense political and ideological contestation. Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life. Mohamed Adhikari engages with the debates and controversies thrown up by the identity’s troubled existence and challenges much of the conventional wisdom associated with it. A combination of wide-ranging thematic analyses and detailed case studies illustrates how Colouredness functioned as a social identity from the time of its emergence in the late nineteenth century through its adaptation to the postapartheid environment. Adhikari demonstrates how the interplay of marginality, racial hierarchy, assimilationist aspirations, negative racial stereotyping, class divisions, and ideological conflicts helped mold people’s sense of Colouredness over the past century. Knowledge of this history, and of the social and political dynamic that informed the articulation of a separate Coloured identity, is vital to an understanding of present-day complexities in South Africa.

Author : Godfrey Hugh Lancelot Le May
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015000593049

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Black and White in South Africa by Godfrey Hugh Lancelot Le May Pdf

Author : Chika Onyeani
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781868425068

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Capitalist Nigger by Chika Onyeani Pdf

Capitalist Nigger is an explosive and jarring indictment of the black race. The book asserts that the Negroid race, as naturally endowed as any other, is culpably a non-productive race, a consumer race that depends on other communities for its culture, its language, its feeding and its clothing. Despite enormous natural resources, blacks are economic slaves because they lack the 'devil-may-care' attitude and the 'killer instinct' of the Caucasian, as well as the spider web mentality of the Asian. A Capitalist Nigger must embody ruthlessness in pursuit of excellence in his drive towards achieving the goal of becoming an economic warrior. In putting forward the idea of the Capitalist Nigger, Chika Onyeani charts a road to success whereby black economic warriors employ the 'Spider Web Doctrine' – discipline, self-reliance, ruthlessness – to escape from their victim mentality. Born in Nigeria, Chika Onyeani is a journalist, editor and former diplomat.

Author : Melissa Steyn
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791490051

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Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be by Melissa Steyn Pdf

Winner of the 2002 Outstanding Book Award presented by the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association The election of 1994, which heralded the demise of Apartheid as a legally enforced institutionalization of "whiteness," disconnected the prior moorings of social identity for most South Africans, whatever their political persuasion. In one of the most profound collective psychological experiences of the contemporary world, South Africans are renegotiating the meaning of their social positionalities. In this book, Melissa Steyn, herself a white South African, grapples with what it means to be white, reflecting on events in her past that still resonate with her today. Her research includes discourse with more than fifty white South Africans who are faced with reinterpreting their old selves in the light of new knowledge and possibilities. Framed within current debates of postcolonialism and postmodernism, "Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be" explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.

Author : Ernest Harsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015001682056

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South Africa by Ernest Harsch Pdf

Author : Robert Fatton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 088706129X

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Black Consciousness in South Africa by Robert Fatton Pdf

Black Consciousness in South Africa provides a new perspective on black politics in South Africa. It demonstrates and assesses critically the radical character and aspirations of African resistance to white minority rule. Robert Fatton analyzes the development and radicalization of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement from its inception in the late 1960s to its banning in 1977. He rejects the widely accepted interpretation of the Black Consciousness Movement as an exclusively cultural and racial expression of African resistance to racism. Instead Fatton argues that over the course of its existence, the Movement developed a revolutionary ideology capable of challenging the cultural and political hegemony of apartheid. The Black Consciousness Movement came to be a synthesis of class awareness and black cultural assertiveness. It represented the ethico-political weapon of an oppressed class struggling to reaffirm its humanity through active participation in the demise of a racist and capitalist system.

Author : Dennis I. Solomon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B3176371

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Black and White Printout in South Africa by Dennis I. Solomon Pdf

Critique of South African government in 1978. Attempt to provide solutions to solutions for equal progressive government psot apartheid.

Author : Philip Hummel
Publisher : Author House
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781456718015

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My Life Growing up White During Apartheid in South Africa by Philip Hummel Pdf

This book is a short collection of memories about being white and living in South Africa during Apartheid. I wrote this book for the reader to easily understand what it was like to live in this environment. It is not a history lesson, but some personal experiences that I went through living in South Africa at the time. Living through apartheid I never even realized that it even existed, because we were brought up to believe that it was normal. Life was paradise for me and hell for others! Many of us did not know or care, and even if we did try to change the system, it would have resulted in prison or death. We believed that changing apartheid would have caused the country to fall into the hands of the communists, and many white people were fearful that black rule would have destroyed South Africa and their lives. The other side of the coin is that I cant comprehend what the lives of most blacks was like, which was excruciatingly difficult, something that I didnt personally experience. Our history books never taught us anything good about blacks. I cant remember ever learning anything positive that blacks did. What I did learn was that they were lazy, uneducated, dangerous, and drank a lot. Stay away from them, and if they bother you call the police. There were serious injustices in South Africa, and many black people suffered under the Apartheid Regime.

Author : Steve Farrah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 0976876175

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Not Black, Not White by Steve Farrah Pdf

Author : Ashwin Desai,Goolem Vahed
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804797221

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The South African Gandhi by Ashwin Desai,Goolem Vahed Pdf

A biography detailing Gandhi’s twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in the nation’s political context. In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. “India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma,” goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South African leaders, including Mandela, have consistently lauded him as being part of the epic battle to defeat the racist white regime. The South African Gandhi focuses on Gandhi’s first leadership experiences and the complicated man they reveal—a man who actually supported the British Empire. Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed unveil a man who, throughout his stay on African soil, stayed true to Empire while showing a disdain for Africans. For Gandhi, whites and Indians were bonded by an Aryan bloodline that had no place for the African. Gandhi’s racism was matched by his class prejudice towards the Indian indentured. He persistently claimed that they were ignorant and needed his leadership, and he wrote their resistances and compromises in surviving a brutal labor regime out of history. The South African Gandhi writes the indentured and working class back into history. The authors show that Gandhi never missed an opportunity to show his loyalty to Empire, with a particular penchant for war as a means to do so. He served as an Empire stretcher-bearer in the Boer War while the British occupied South Africa, he demanded guns in the aftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion, and he toured the villages of India during the First World War as recruiter for the Imperial army. This meticulously researched book punctures the dominant narrative of Gandhi and uncovers an ambiguous figure whose time on African soil was marked by a desire to seek the integration of Indians, minus many basic rights, into the white body politic while simultaneously excluding Africans from his moral compass and political ideals. Praise for The South African Gandhi “In this impressively researched study, two South African scholars of Indian background bravely challenge political myth-making on both sides of the Indian Ocean that has sought to canonize Gandhi as a founding father of the struggle for equality there. They show that the Mahatma-to-be carefully refrained from calling on his followers to throw in their lot with the black majority. The mass struggle he finally led remained an Indian struggle.” —Joseph Lelyveld, author of Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India “This is a wonderful demonstration of meticulously researched, evocative, clear-eyed and fearless history writing. It uncovers a story, some might even call it a scandal, that has remained hidden in plain sight for far too long. The South African Gandhi is a big book. It is a serious challenge to the way we have been taught to think about Gandhi.” —Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

Author : Shadrack Gutto
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 1919876553

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Equality and Non-discrimination in South Africa by Shadrack Gutto Pdf

This study explores and critiques law and law making in the nascent constitutional democracy in the new South Africa, with a focus on the complex roles of the executive, parliament, political parties, the media and civil society. The capacity and potential in the judiciary and the legal profession in promoting and protecting values and rights of equality and non-discrimination is examined. Substantive equality and non-discrimination law in theory and in practice is considered critically, from a broad historical and social context that highlights areas of race, gender, disability, harassment and hate speech, socio-economic rights, and legal services. International human rights law and comparative law aspects are skillfully interwoven in this pioneering scholarly work.