@article{824145,
      recid = {824145},
      author = {Tafira, Hashi Kenneth,},
      title = {Xenophobia in South Africa : a history /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid  South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts  black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people  died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra  township of Johannesburg; in the aftermath, Hashi Kenneth  Tafira went to Alexandra and undertook an ethnographic  study of why this violence occurred. Presented here, his  findings reframe xenophobia as a form of black-on-black  racism, unraveling the long history of colonial  dehumanization and self-abnegation that continues to shape  South African black subjectivities. Studying vernacular,  popular stereotypes, gender, and sexual politics, Tafira  investigates the dynamics of love relationships between  black South African women and black immigrant men, and  pervasive myths about male sexuality, economic competition,  and immigrants. Pioneering and timely, this book presents a  cohesive picture of the new face of racism in the  twenty-first century.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/824145},
}