Constructing race
Subtitle: youth, identity, and popular culture in South Africa
By: Nadine E. Dolby ; [foreword by Cameron McCarthy].
Series: SUNY series, power, social identity, and education
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Youth -- South Africa -- Social conditions; Blacks -- Race identity -- South Africa; Whites -- Race identity -- South Africa; Colored people (South Africa) -- Race identity; Popular culture -- South Africa; South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1994-; South Africa -- Race relations; South Africa -- Ethnic relations
Description: "As apartheid crumbled in South Africa, racial identity was thrown into question. Based on a year-long ethnographic study of a multiracial high school in Durban, this book explores how youth make meaning of the still powerful, yet changing, idea of race. In a world saturated with media images and global commodities, fashion and music become charged, polarized racial identifiers.

As youth engage with this world, race simultaneously persists and falters, providing us with a glimpse into the future of race both within South Africa and throughout urban youth cultures worldwide."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-149) and index.