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"Whiteness just isn't what it used to be" : white identity in a changing South Africa
Verfasst von:
Steyn, Melissa E.
Albany, NY:
State Univ. of New York Press
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2001
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228 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Steyn, Melissa E. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
SUNY series, Interruptions: border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s
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| Jahr: | 2001 |
| Maße: | 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0791450805 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The book explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self. 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 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. Table of contents: Preface * Acknowledgments * Section One: Early Tales 1. A Master Narrative of Whiteness 2. White South Africans * Section Two: Shades of Whiteness 3. Things Bad Begun: Growing up White 4. Narrative One: Still Colonial after All These Years 5. Narrative Two: This Shouldn't to A White 6. Narrative Three: Don't Think White, It's All Right 7. Narrative Four: A Whiter Shade of White 8. Narrative Five: Under African Skies (or White, but Not Quite) 9. Conclusion: Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used to Be * Appendix 1: Methodology * Appendix 2: Brief Chronology of South African Political Events | |
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