Race for Education
Subtitle: Gender, White Tone, and Schooling in South Africa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781108727631
Subjects: Discrimination in education; Education, south africa; Educational equalization
Description: "This book adds to existing research exposing continued inequalities in South Africa's education facilities and exam results. However, it rethinks South Africa's political transition by revealing how the prestige of whiteness, or what it calls "white tone," became reformulated in the everyday workings of a marketised education system. It shows how "white" phenotypic traits retain value in society even if some better-off "black" people can now buy prestigious cultural dispositions"--