Xenophobia in South Africa : a history / Hashi Kenneth Tafira.
2018
JV8825.2
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Title
Xenophobia in South Africa : a history / Hashi Kenneth Tafira.
ISBN
9783319677149 (electronic book)
3319677144 (electronic book)
9783319677132
3319677144 (electronic book)
9783319677132
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
JV8825.2
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.8/009680905
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 30, 2017).
Series
African histories and modernities.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Is Xenophobia Racism?
3. Inside the Mind of a Xenophobe
4. The Interface between Race, Nation, Nationalism, and Ethnicism
5. Politics of Difference
6. Local Woman and Immigrant Lover
7. The Immigrant's Phallus
8. Particularisms and Relationships
9. Postscript.
2. Is Xenophobia Racism?
3. Inside the Mind of a Xenophobe
4. The Interface between Race, Nation, Nationalism, and Ethnicism
5. Politics of Difference
6. Local Woman and Immigrant Lover
7. The Immigrant's Phallus
8. Particularisms and Relationships
9. Postscript.