Persistence of Race.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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SUN PReSS
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- The STIAS series
- CONTENTS
- List of Contributors
- An introduction
- SECTION I: How the Stage was Set
- 01: Racism's workshop
- Introduction
- Prejudice
- Hate
- Some issues: How do prejudice and hate work? Do they work differently?
- A way forward: Between prejudice and hate
- References
- 02: An unlikely turning point
- Skin lightening in historical context
- The commercial development of skin lighteners in the United States and South Africa
- The rise of skin bleaching in South Africa
- Conclusion: The introduction of skin bleaches into South Africa was a genuine turning point
- References
- 03: Settler-colonialism, nationalism and geopolitical politics
- Introduction
- Prehistory
- South Africa's strategic position
- Race, racialism and racism in settler, colonial or nationalist South Africa
- The first encounter with mercantile Europeans
- Early ideas were not embedded in race, but in terms of religion, monetary worth and location
- Dutch identity emerges in reaction to British economic colonialism
- Modern imperialistic capitalism and colonialism
- Dutch settlers cement the concept of Afrikaners
- The British seek to crush emerging Afrikaner identity
- Complex interplay between groups of the South African population
- Anti-British elements seek theories and allies on the global stage
- Early communism
- Afrikaner nationalism looks to Europe
- Post-World War I social experiments in Europe
- The British colonialist attitude after the start of decolonialism
- Indigenous people respond to nationalist provocation
- Multicultural support for more equal treatment moves to the left
- Communism amongst African indigenous groups
- International response to perceived communist threat
- Later Dutch-Afrikaner attitudes
- Discussion of turning points
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 04: From settler to postcolonial
- The importance of nation-states
- Four main roads to a nation-state
- South Africa as a settler-state
- Racial rehabilitations
- Options and meanings of 1994
- Postcolonial South Africa
- Envoi
- References
- SECTION II: Assessment and Future Prospects
- 05: Ways of being
- Introduction: From here to there
- But where to start?
- Here
- What
- Why?
- How
- Recognition of the obstacles
- Conclusion
- References
- 06: The effects of racism on the human body
- Introduction
- The hidden scourge of race-thinking and racism
- The lasting effects of stress caused by racism
- Epigenetic information does not mean "no hope"
- References
- 07: Knowing and being
- Introduction
- So what do we know about "race"?
- Classification: The power of normative orders versus the consequences of knowing
- The politics of positionality
- Concluding thoughts: How would ethical thinking be brought about?
- References
- 08: Semantics in the philosophy of race