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Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be
Melissa Steyn
其他書名
White Identity in a Changing South Africa
出版SUNY Press, 2001-08-30
主題Social Science / Discrimination & Race RelationsHistory / Africa / South / Republic of South AfricaSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Minority Studies
ISBN07914507919780791450796
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2dUzh_tTAXkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 contemporary 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.