Title: Constructing race
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.
Subjects: Blacks, Colored people (South Africa), Ethnic relations, Popular culture, Race identity, Race relations, Social conditions, Whites, Youth, South africa, race relations, Black people, White people
Places: South Africa
Time periods: 1994-