Under construction : 'race' and identity in South Africa today
Title:
Under construction : 'race' and identity in South Africa today
Author:
Distiller, Natasha.
ISBN:
9780796214782
Publication Information:
Sandton : Heinemann, 2004.
Physical Description:
x, 213 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 x 25 cm
General Note:
"Isandla Institute."
" ... a colloquium was held at the Institute for Intercultural and Diversity Studies at the University of Cape Town in December 2003 to work through the terms and ideas we proposed for this book."--Preface.
Contents:
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