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‘Social pain and social death’: poor white stigma in post-apartheid South Africa, a case of West Bank in East London
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Octavia Sibanda --- Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Fort Hare,This article looks at poor white stigma in post-apartheid South Africa. Drawing on my ethnographic engagement with my informants, I developed this article as a part of my broader argument that explores the complex nature of white poverty in South... -
Frontiers of freedom: race, landscape and nationalism in the coastal cultures of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Leslie Bank --- Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research, South AfricaThe idea that whiteness is not a natural category but one which requires construction, maintenance and investment has provoked a rich scholarship, including in South Africa. The scholarship on whiteness in southern Africa has been marked, in particular, by a... -
(Dis)empowered whiteness: un-whitely spaces and the production of the good white home
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Christi Kruger --- Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, South AfricaThis paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork in a white informal settlement in South Africa, to explore the ways in which poorer whites with perceived notions of whiteness and blackness negotiate living in informal settlements. In doing this, I argue, they... -
‘Voyage across Cultures and Climes’: Whiteness, Exoticisation and Alienation in David Kerr’s Tangled Tongues
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Syned Mthatiwa --- , MalawiA reading of the poetry by David Kerr, a British mobile professional in southern Africa, shows that he does not only cast a critical and ironic look at the various cultures and socio-political behaviours he encounters in his sojourns, but... -
Belonging, Memory and Subaltern Voices: Reflecting on Sindiwe Magona’s To my Children’s Children
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- , South AfricaFor many black people, the act of writing and expressing one’s thoughts was an exercise of resistance and defiance, one that often meant risking losing one’s freedom or one’s life. Sindiwe Magona’s works challenge the commonly held assumption that writing...