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Title

Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners : addressing post-apartheid legacies, privileges and burdens / editor in chief: Joel Netshitenzhe; text editor: Barry Gilder; copy editor: Christopher Merrett.

Author

"Whites, Afrikaans, Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens" (Round table) (2015 : Johannesburg, South Africa)

Publication

Woodmead, Johannesburg : Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), 2018.

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Additional Authors

• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. South Africa Office, sponsoring body.
• Gilder, Barry, 1950-
• Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection, organizer.
• Merrett, Christopher,
• National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (South Africa), sponsoring body.
• Netshitenzhe, Joel,

Description

xxiv, 153 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"South Africa has been reeling under the recent blows of an apparent resurgence of crude public manifestations of racism and a hardening of attitudes on both sides of the racial divide. This volume comprises the varied and thought-provoking presentations from a discourse on "whiteness", including a keynote address by former president Kgalema Motlanthe and inputs from Melissa Steyn, Andries Nel, Mary Burton, Christi van der Westhuizen, Lynette Steenveld, Bobby Godsell, Dirk Herman (of Solidarity), Ernst Roets (of Afriforum), Xhanti Payi, Mathatha Tsedu, Pieter Duvenage, Hein Willemse and Nico Koopman, with closing remarks by Achille Mbembe and Mathews Phosa. It deals with a range of issues around 'whiteness' in general and delves into the place of Afrikaners and the Afrikaans language in democratic South Africa, demonstrating that there is no homogeneity of views on these topics among white South Africans in general and Afrikaners in particular."--

Subjects

• Ethnic relations > Political aspects > Congresses
• Racism > South Africa > Congresses
• South Africa > Race relations > Congresses
• Whites > Race identity > South Africa > Congresses
• Ethnicity > Political aspects > Congresses
• White nationalism > Congresses

Note

• Presentations from a round-table, "Whites, Afrikaans, Afrikaners: Addressing Post-Apartheid Legacies, Privileges and Burdens", held November 2015 at the Women's Gaol on Constitution Hill, organized by MISTRA in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS). This round-table was organized to address a gap in MISTRA's previous research project, published as Nation Formation and Social Cohesion : An Enquiry into the Hopes and Aspirations of South Africans (August 2015).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Keynote address / Kgalema Motlanthe. -- Being white today. Whiteness : post-apartheid, decolonial / Melissa Steyn -- Where are the Suzmans, Slovos, Fischers and Naudés of today? / Andries Nel -- The 'white man's burden' : fifteen years after the TRC / Mary Burton -- White power today / Christi van der Westhuizen. -- Whiteness and the South African economy. Capitalism, racialism and whiteness / Lynette Steenveld -- The colour of capital / Bobby Godsell -- Dear Mother Africa / Dirk Hermann -- Double standards and black privilege : the new story of South Africa / Ernst Roets -- The demands of the new world sustain the sins of the old : the parks fable on transformation / Xhanti Payi. -- The world of ideas : the place of Afrikaans. The world of ideas : the place of Afrikaans / Mathatha Tsedu -- Afrikaner intellectual history : an interpretation / Pieter Duvenage -- The hidden histories of Afrikaans / Hein Willemse -- A South African ('n Suid Afrikaner) university : is it possible? / Nico Koopman. -- Closing remarks / Achille Mbembe ; Mathews Phosa.

ISBN

• 9780639923819
• 063992381X

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library