Introduction: From a Minority Racial to a Non-racial Paradise

Gregory Houston; Modimowabarwa Kanyane; Yul Derek Davids

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Gregory Houston

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Modimowabarwa Kanyane

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Pages:: 1–31

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004515949_002

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Abstract

Apartheid South Africa presented to racist forces the world over a significant model and resource for ideas, ideology, inspiration and leadership. For such racist forces, it provided a model for social organisation in which the different South African race groups - whites, black Africans, Indians and so-called ‘coloureds’ - would exercise their political rights in separate institutions and geographic spaces, experience social life separately in racially-defined spaces, be educated in separate institutions, engage in certain economic activities in racially-defined areas, etc. It was a model for the establishment of a paradise for one race group in a society with several race groups that, if it gained international acceptance, could possibly have led to its application in similar societies elsewhere. The anti-apartheid struggle, however, envisaged a model in complete contrast with apartheid, one too that promised paradise in a multi-racial society. The introduction explores the concepts of race and racism, as well as introduces some of the key elements of the apartheid ‘paradise’, post-apartheid South Africa and the non-racial ‘paradise’ envisaged by the South African liberation movements. Utilising relevant secondary literature on apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, the chapter explores key elements of these periods and the envisaged non-racial society. This is followed by brief descriptions of each chapter in the book, with an emphasis on the core objective which draws the chapters in the volume together: dealing with race in order to demonstrate its irrelevance and ultimately bring about its erasure.

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Paradise Lost

Race and Racism in Post-apartheid South Africa

Series: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, Volume: 28

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004515949

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 06 Jun 2022

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Part 1 White Privilege and the Racialised Power Structure in South Africa

Part 2 The Manifestation of Racism in Post-apartheid South Africa

Part 3 Race and Identity in Post-apartheid South Africa

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