Racial category membership as resource and constraint in everyday interactions.
| dc.contributor.author | Whitehead, Kevin. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-28T11:51:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-28T11:51:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-09-28 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The anti-apartheid struggle was characterised by tensions between the opposing principles of non-racialism (as exemplified by the Freedom Charter) and racialism (as exemplified by Black Consciousness). While non-racialism has become a central value in post-apartheid South Africa, tensions remain between the ANC government‘s long-standing commitment to non-racialism and its continued use of race-conscious policies and appeals to black nationalism. These tensions are also reflected in the writings of social scientists, who have questioned how we might "address a rejection of the actual 'existence' of races as well as the overwhelming existence of the social construct in having shaped – and still shaping – the life chances of citizens" (Maré 2001:80; cf. Posel 2001b:75-76). While questions of this nature are clearly important and complex matters for policymakers and social scientists to grapple with, I show in this paper that they are also lively concerns for ordinary people in South Africa – and that an examination of everyday interactions in South Africa can provide illuminating insights. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This is a research report facilitated by the ccrri and enabled by a grant received from the Maurice Webb Trust. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/1283 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Non-racialism. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Racial category. | en_US |
| dc.title | Racial category membership as resource and constraint in everyday interactions. | en_US |
| dc.type | Presentation | en_US |
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