Racism, Violence, Betrayals and New Imaginaries

Feminist Voices
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-62425-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

This anthology consists of academic essays, creative non-fiction, poetry and short stories on race and racism by black women from South Africa and Brazil. Through these different genres, the book engages with the complexities of race in social, political, economic, institutional and personal spaces. Concerned with social justice, human rights and freedom, these writings spotlight the amalgamation of racial, gender and class subjectivities and how these are marked, un-marked, re-marked and re-made on bodies. The book connects globally and locally to social and political phenomena in the modern-day world.

 

The contributors interrogate their political and personal worlds, revealing layered, intersecting ways of being that were essentially centred by colonial histories but not defined in totality by coloniality and oppression. In speaking to the proximity of these experiences, they reflect and narrate the past, contemplate the present and imagine the future. This curated anthology asks questions centred around freedom. What does freedom mean? When do we have it, and when do we not? Most importantly, how do we get it?

Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

Zielgruppe

Academic, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanger, Nadia

Moolman, Benita

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Writing our freedom: Stepping into and outside of neoliberal racism in South Africa

Nadia Sanger and Benita Moolman

PART 1: WHAT WE HAVE INHERITED: INSTITUTIONAL AND TRANSGENERATIONAL RACE VIOLENCE

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Vanessa R. Ludwig

Invisible violence, invisible wounding: Effects of internalised racism in South Africa

Sarah Malotane Henkeman

Pedagogies of betrayal: A meditation on internalised racism

Kharnita Mohamed

Forgive them Lorde, for they know not what they do: Whiteness as suicide ideation

Yvette Abrahams

Claustrophobic and unable to move: Representations and social discourses of racism and inequality in the Western Cape media

Benita Moolman and Dane Isaacs

PART 2: DEALING WITH INHERITANCE: RECLAIMING AND RECOGNISING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PERSON OF COLOUR

Don’t call me a Boesman

Jolyn Phillips

Two continents, one legacy: Psycho-emotional effects of racism in the history of two young women from Africa and the diaspora

Liliane Braga and Luciana Braga (translated by Julian Cola)

Über Autor(innen)

Nadia Sanger is senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Stellenbosch University.

Benita Moolman is programme manager and senior lecturer at the Global Citizenship Programme at the University of Cape Town.