Being white in south africa

    • [PDF File]Troubled Transformation: Whites, Welfare, and ‘Reverse-Racism ...

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      white in a bid to remain exceptional, and thus to be recognised as being poor in a manner that would distinguish them from Africans. Keywords: welfare, whites, racism, ‘reverse-racism’, post-apartheid, Newcastle, post-industrial towns, South Africa Introduction In this paper, we consider white families on wel-


    • [PDF File]SHIFTING WHITE IDENTITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA: WHITE ... - SciELO

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      This paper argues that whites’ assertion of an African identity does not necessarily assist in the achievement of racial justice, but that some kind of shift in white identity is required in order for whites to be able to contribute to the achievement of a racially just South Africa.


    • The maintenance of white privilege: The case of white South ...

      1) – in marked contrast to the population make-up in South Africa itself whereby white South Africans make up less than 9% of the population (Statistics South Africa, 2012). The white population in South Africa can historically be traced to the colonial influence of Britain and other European nations, in addition to various


    • [PDF File]Decolonizing South African Sociology: What the White Academy ...

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      As Hall noted, the state in South Africa was “sustained by the forging of alliances between white ruling-class interests and the interests of white workers against blacks” (1996, 426). In recent years there have been abortive attempts to create an alliance of Black trade unions and their white counterparts but this too has proven to be a


    • The fall of apartheid . . . swept away the home in which ...

      Whiteness was the talisman that granted access to privilege and power. In reality, the uniform category of “white” in South Africa was a racial construct. None of the varied differences of language, religion, or cultural heritage found among the white population was reflected in this classi-fication.


    • [PDF File]A Disgraced Whiteness: Tactics Used to Deny Racism, Reduce ...

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      Abstract The stigma of being white in post-apartheid South Africa is a complex challenge. In 2008 the town of Swartruggens was discredited in the media following a shooting of black shack dwellers by a white Afrikaans boy, igniing racial tensions and creating a media narrative of ‘victimised blacks’ and ‘violent whites’.


    • White Fright: The Politics of White Youth Identity in South ...

      recentring themselves as victims. As they survey their lives and futures, white students also plot routes of escape out of South Africa, taking refuge in a global whiteness that has many different facets. As white students elude and evade the boundaries of the nation-state in their quest for a secure, privileged whiteness,


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