Who Is an African?: Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa
The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Africans in the Diaspora. The outburst of xenophobic attacks against foreigners mostly of Black African origins in some communities of Kwa-Zulu Natal and areas of Johannesburg during 2008 and 2015 has raised questions about the social cohesion of South African society linked to unresolved structural identity issues bequeathed by the nation’s past colonial and apartheid legacy. This publication argues that there is an embedded schizophrenic identity crisis within the society that requires scholarly interrogation. The chapters assemble scholarly voices from different ethnic groups that examine the central research question of this study: Who is an African? Within the wider Southern African context, identity and ethnicity politics are framing nationalist economic policies and are impacting on social cohesion within many countries. Writing from different social and racial locations the authors have critically engaged with the central question and offer some important insights that can serve as a resource for all nations grappling with issues of race, ethnicity, identity constructed politics, and social cohesion.
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Who Is an African?: Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa
The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Africans in the Diaspora. The outburst of xenophobic attacks against foreigners mostly of Black African origins in some communities of Kwa-Zulu Natal and areas of Johannesburg during 2008 and 2015 has raised questions about the social cohesion of South African society linked to unresolved structural identity issues bequeathed by the nation’s past colonial and apartheid legacy. This publication argues that there is an embedded schizophrenic identity crisis within the society that requires scholarly interrogation. The chapters assemble scholarly voices from different ethnic groups that examine the central research question of this study: Who is an African? Within the wider Southern African context, identity and ethnicity politics are framing nationalist economic policies and are impacting on social cohesion within many countries. Writing from different social and racial locations the authors have critically engaged with the central question and offer some important insights that can serve as a resource for all nations grappling with issues of race, ethnicity, identity constructed politics, and social cohesion.
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Who Is an African?: Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa
The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Africans in the Diaspora. The outburst of xenophobic attacks against foreigners mostly of Black African origins in some communities of Kwa-Zulu Natal and areas of Johannesburg during 2008 and 2015 has raised questions about the social cohesion of South African society linked to unresolved structural identity issues bequeathed by the nation’s past colonial and apartheid legacy. This publication argues that there is an embedded schizophrenic identity crisis within the society that requires scholarly interrogation. The chapters assemble scholarly voices from different ethnic groups that examine the central research question of this study: Who is an African? Within the wider Southern African context, identity and ethnicity politics are framing nationalist economic policies and are impacting on social cohesion within many countries. Writing from different social and racial locations the authors have critically engaged with the central question and offer some important insights that can serve as a resource for all nations grappling with issues of race, ethnicity, identity constructed politics, and social cohesion.
Roderick R. Hewitt is academic leader for research and higher degrees in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of Kwaéulu-Natal.Chammah J. Kaunda is Africa Research Fellow, Senior Research Specialist in Human Development Science of the Human Sciences Research Council (HDS-HSRC), and honorary lecturer in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of Kwaéulu-Natal.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Marshall W. MurphreeForeword: Nobuhle HlongwaAcknowledgements ContributorsIntroduction: Who is an African?Roderick R. Hewitt Chammah J. KaundaPART I: RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND CULTURAL IDENTITYThe Changing Salience of Race: Discrimination and Diversity in South AfricaJeremy Seekings, University of Cape Town Cracking the Skull of Racism in South Africa Post-1994Vuyani S. Vellem, University of PretoriaBlack Solidarity Impaled: The Cause of AfrophobiaBernard Matolino, University of Kwaéulu-Natal Race, Place and Indian Identities in Contemporary South Africa Goolam Vahed, University of Kwaéulu-NatalAshwin Desai, University of Johannesburg Liberating Identifications: Being Black Conscious, Being Non-Racial, Being AfricanNico Botha, University of South AfricaUmuntu Akalahlwa: An Exploration of an African EthicsSibusiso Masondo, University of Kwaéulu-NatalPART II: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND SOCIAL COHESION“I am Born of a People Who Would Not Tolerate Oppression”: The Role of Indian Women’s Movements in Social TransformationRowanne S. Marie, Seth Mokitimi Methodist SeminaryIdentity Construction of African Women in the Midst of Land DispossessionMaserole Kgari-Masondo, University of Kwaéulu-NatalRe-enacting “Destiny”: Masculinity and Afrikaner Identity in “Religious” Post-Apartheid South AfricaKennedy Owino, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary/University of Kwaéulu-Natal“Some LGBTIQs Are More Unequal than Others”: Determinants of LGBTIQ Marginality in South AfricaScott Everett Couper, University of Kwaéulu-Natal/Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary Rituals of Female Solidarity: The Role of Imbusa in Promoting Social Cohesion among Married Women in Pietermaritzburg, South AfricaMutale M. Kaunda, University of Kwaéulu-NatalChammah J. Kaunda, University of South AfricaPART III: RELIGION, PROTEST, AND AFRICANNESS “Sing unto the LORD a New Song” (Psalm 98:1): Aspects of the Afrikaans Punk-Rock Group Fokofpolisiekar’s Musical Spirituality as Rearticulated Aspects of the 1978 Afrikaans Psalm– en GesangeboekChristo Lombaard, University of South AfricaRastafari Perspectives on African Identities: Lucky Dube’s “Different Colours / One People” in Conversation with Peter Tosh’s “I Am an African” Roderick R. Hewitt, University of Kwaéulu-NatalOn Locating Islam and African Muslim Identity within Black/Africana Existential Thought: A PreviewTahir Fuzile Sitoto, University of Kwaéulu-NatalUrban Immigrant Pentecostal Missiology: The Case of an Immigrant Zambian Pentecostal Pastor in South AfricaChammah J. Kaunda, University of South AfricaWhy Read the West? Messianicity and Canonicity within a Postcolonial, South African ContextJustin Sands, North-West University Potchefstroom