Author: Michael MacDonald
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674021860
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. Although democratic South Africa is officially "non-racial," the book shows that racial solidarities continue to play a role in the country's political economy.
Why Race Matters in South Africa
Author: Michael MacDonald
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674021860
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. Although democratic South Africa is officially "non-racial," the book shows that racial solidarities continue to play a role in the country's political economy.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674021860
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book tells the story of how the transition to democracy in South Africa enfranchised blacks politically but without raising most of them from poverty. Although democratic South Africa is officially "non-racial," the book shows that racial solidarities continue to play a role in the country's political economy.
The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa
Author: S. Mark
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131786896X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
"The standard of contribution is high . . . the reader gets a good sense of the cutting edge of historical research." – African Affairs
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131786896X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
"The standard of contribution is high . . . the reader gets a good sense of the cutting edge of historical research." – African Affairs
The Race Game
Author: Douglas Booth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136313540
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year Douglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. He analyzes the effect of the 30-year sport boycott but concludes that sport will never unite South Africans except in the most fleeting and superficial manner.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136313540
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
1999 North American Society for Sports History Book of the Year Douglas Booth looks at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa. He analyzes the effect of the 30-year sport boycott but concludes that sport will never unite South Africans except in the most fleeting and superficial manner.
Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
Author: Jeremy Seekings
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128754
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the midtwentieth century to the early twenty-first century. They show that the basis of inequality shifted in the last decades of the twentieth century from race to class. Formal deracialization of public policy did not reduce the actual disadvantages experienced by the poor nor the advantages of the rich. The fundamental continuity in patterns of advantage and disadvantage resulted from underlying continuities in public policy, or what Seekings and Nattrass call the “distributional regime.” The post-apartheid distributional regime continues to divide South Africans into insiders and outsiders. The insiders, now increasingly multiracial, enjoy good access to well-paid, skilled jobs; the outsiders lack skills and employment.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300128754
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the midtwentieth century to the early twenty-first century. They show that the basis of inequality shifted in the last decades of the twentieth century from race to class. Formal deracialization of public policy did not reduce the actual disadvantages experienced by the poor nor the advantages of the rich. The fundamental continuity in patterns of advantage and disadvantage resulted from underlying continuities in public policy, or what Seekings and Nattrass call the “distributional regime.” The post-apartheid distributional regime continues to divide South Africans into insiders and outsiders. The insiders, now increasingly multiracial, enjoy good access to well-paid, skilled jobs; the outsiders lack skills and employment.
Making Race and Nation
Author: Anthony W. Marx
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the history of slavery, colonialism, miscegenation and culture, but were fundamentally shaped by impediments and efforts to build national unity. In South Africa and the United States, ethnic or regional conflicts among whites were resolved by unifying whites and excluding blacks, while Brazil's longer established national unity required no such legal racial crutch. Race was thus central to projects of nation-building, and nationalism shaped uses of race. Professor Marx extends this argument to explain popular protest and the current salience of issues of race.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the history of slavery, colonialism, miscegenation and culture, but were fundamentally shaped by impediments and efforts to build national unity. In South Africa and the United States, ethnic or regional conflicts among whites were resolved by unifying whites and excluding blacks, while Brazil's longer established national unity required no such legal racial crutch. Race was thus central to projects of nation-building, and nationalism shaped uses of race. Professor Marx extends this argument to explain popular protest and the current salience of issues of race.
The Political Economy of Race and Class in South Africa
Author: Bernard Magubane
Publisher: New York : Monthly Review Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Monthly Review Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Modernizing Racial Domination
Author: Heribert Adam
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520018235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Apartheid Raciald̈iscrimination Discrimination Racer̈elations Politics SouthÄfrica.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520018235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Apartheid Raciald̈iscrimination Discrimination Racer̈elations Politics SouthÄfrica.
Race and Politics in South Africa
Author: Ian Robertson
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412832618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412832618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Making Race
Author: Ian Goldin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colored people (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colored people (South Africa)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Framing the Race in South Africa
Author: Karen E. Ferree
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139494767
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Post-apartheid South African elections have borne an unmistakable racial imprint: Africans vote for one set of parties, whites support a different set of parties, and, with few exceptions, there is no crossover voting between groups. These voting tendencies have solidified the dominance of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) over South African politics and turned South African elections into 'racial censuses'. This book explores the political sources of these outcomes. It argues that although the beginnings of these patterns lie in South Africa's past, in the effects apartheid had on voters' beliefs about race and destiny and the reputations parties forged during this period, the endurance of the census reflects the ruling party's ability to use the powers of office to prevent the opposition from evolving away from its apartheid-era party label. By keeping key opposition parties 'white', the ANC has rendered them powerless, solidifying its hold on power in spite of an increasingly restive and dissatisfied electorate.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139494767
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Post-apartheid South African elections have borne an unmistakable racial imprint: Africans vote for one set of parties, whites support a different set of parties, and, with few exceptions, there is no crossover voting between groups. These voting tendencies have solidified the dominance of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) over South African politics and turned South African elections into 'racial censuses'. This book explores the political sources of these outcomes. It argues that although the beginnings of these patterns lie in South Africa's past, in the effects apartheid had on voters' beliefs about race and destiny and the reputations parties forged during this period, the endurance of the census reflects the ruling party's ability to use the powers of office to prevent the opposition from evolving away from its apartheid-era party label. By keeping key opposition parties 'white', the ANC has rendered them powerless, solidifying its hold on power in spite of an increasingly restive and dissatisfied electorate.