Introduction : Under construction / Unhappy/happy / 'Race' horses: horses and social dynamics in post-apartheid South Africa / The black and white nation / Living the pain of creolisation: shifting contexts of subject formation in K. Sello Duiker's 'Thirteen Cents' and Lueen Conning's 'A Coloured place' / 'Racial' characterisation in the apartheid-period and post-apartheid writings of J.M. Coetzee / Boet en Swaer / Assimilation, emigration, semigration, and integration: 'white' peoples' strategies for finding a comfort zone in post-apartheid South Africa / You are here / Biko / Rehybridising the Creole: New South African Afrikaners / Die hemel help ons / A conceptual person / Home for all / Rewriting WESSA identity / Whites who never benefited from apartheid / Seeing white -- sharing the burden of race / Imagining alternative white masculinities: Steven Cohen's Living Art / Richard / Culture / When a Good Black Woman is your weekend special: Brenda Fassie, sexuality and performance / "We're black, stupid": uMabatha and the new South Africa on the world stage / Tradition and tribe: invented pasts and political legitimacy in a democratic South Africa / Sage green / Township boy / Two rooms and a kitchen / The dinner / Identity and the politics of representation in hip-hop / Mark of the beast / True love