The dynamics of black identity formation in contemporary South Africa

Author/Creator:: Mtose, Xoliswa author
Publication/Creation:: Cape Town, South Africa : African Century Edition (ACE) Press, 2020
Resource Type:: Book

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Full Title:: The dynamics of black identity formation in contemporary South Africa / Xoliswa Mtose

Genre:: History
Subjects:: Black people--Race identity--South Africa
Apartheid--South Africa
Racism--South Africa
Racism
South Africa--Race relations
South Africa--Politics and government--1994-

Table of Contents:: The psychology of black identity -- Postcolonial theory in racial identity -- Social construction and identity construction -- Apartheid and post-apartheid narratives of racism in South Africa -- Issues of identity and otherness -- "I saw myself in so many black people that I interviewed"
Summary:: "This book is about the ambivalence and contradictions of black identity. Ambivalence in this context speaks of black identity as being historically grounded in an encounter with whites and an encounter with racism. The book seeks to understand how black South African are shaping a sense of self in the changing socio-historical context of post-apartheid South Africa. The central question is: with the political change in South Africa, how has black identity changed, and is there still a psychology of oppression in the way in which black identity is constructed today?"--
Language:: English
Physical Type/Description:: ix, 194 pages ; 22 cm