Declassified
Subtitle: moving beyond the dead end of race in South Africa
By: Gerhard Maré
Publisher: Jacana Media; Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Auckland Park, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781431420209
Subjects: Politics and culture; Politics and government; Race; Racism; Race awareness; Post-apartheid era
Description: "Twenty years after the end of apartheid, race still continues to play a role in South African society. Ironically, in a society that is constitutionally committed to non-racialism, race thinking and race classification have been carried forward unthinkingly from our past. Not only does the rationale for such continuation not address the real concerns of our society but the system of classifying carries inevitable seeds of conflict within itself. What is more, the classification of fellow human beings into races remains a crime against humanity, no matter what justification is offered. In this powerfully argued book, Gerhard Maré takes up the challenge to imagine a world beyond the boundaries created by race." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part one: Thinking about race and our racial legacy; title: Part two: Prologue; title: Fair discrimination; title: What counts when race is at work; title: Classification without a law; title: Part three: The imagined enemy that serves a purpose; title: Now that there are no barbarians?; title: Notes; title: Index.