Reflections on identity in four African cities /

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Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanizing rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalizing influences sweep across the continent. Africa is also facing up to the challe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bekker, S. B., Leildé, Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Stellenbosch] : African Minds, 2006.
Temas:
Group identity > Africa.
Group identity > South Africa.
Nationalism > Africa.
Nationalism > South Africa.
Identité collective > Afrique.
Identité collective > Afrique du Sud.
Nationalisme > Afrique.
Nationalisme > Afrique du Sud.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Civilization
Group identity
Manners and customs
Nationalism
Ethnische Identität
Gruppenidentität
South Africa > Social life and customs.
Africa > Civilization.
Africa > Social life and customs.
South Africa > Civilization.
Africa
South Africa
Libreville
Johannesburg
Kapstadt
Löhma > Saale-Orla-Kreis
Johannesburg.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1
  • Introduction
  • PART 1: Social Identity: Construction, Research and Analysis
  • Chapter 2
  • Identity studies in Africa
  • PART 2: Profiles of Four Cities
  • Chapter 3
  • Demographic profiles of Cape Town and Johannesburg
  • Chapter 4
  • Demographic profiles of Libreville and Lomé
  • PART 3: Space and Identity
  • Chapter 5
  • Space and identity
  • Chapter 6
  • Domestic workers, job access and work identities in Cape Town and Johannesburg
  • Chapter 7
  • When shacks ainâ€?t chic!PART 4: Class, Race, Language and Identity
  • Chapter 8
  • Discourses on a changing urban environment
  • Chapter 9
  • Class, race and language in Cape Town and Johannesburg
  • Chapter 10
  • The importance of language identities to black residents of Cape Town and Johannesburg
  • Chapter 11
  • The importance of language identities in Lomé and Libreville
  • PART 5: The African Continent
  • Chapter 12
  • What is an African?
  • References
  • List of contributors
  • Index
  • Back cover

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