The dynamics of black identity formation in contemporary South Africa
By: Xoliswa Mtose
Publisher: African Century Edition (ACE) Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780639817699; 9780639817651
Subjects: Black people; Race identity; Race relations; Apartheid; Racism; Politics and government; Blacks
Description: "This book is about the ambivalence and contradictions of black identity. Ambivalence in this context speaks of black identity as being historically grounded in an encounter with whites and an encounter with racism. The book seeks to understand how black South African are shaping a sense of self in the changing socio-historical context of post-apartheid South Africa. The central question is: with the political change in South Africa, how has black identity changed, and is there still a psychology of oppression in the way in which black identity is constructed today?"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-194).
Table of contents: title: The psychology of black identity; title: Postcolonial theory in racial identity; title: Social construction and identity construction; title: Apartheid and post-apartheid narratives of racism in South Africa; title: Issues of identity and otherness; title: "I saw myself in so many black people that I interviewed."