- Title
- Disclaiming/denigrating/dodging: white South African academics’ everyday racetalk
- Creator
- Vincent, Louise
- Creator
- Idahosa, Grace E
- Creator
- Msomi, Zuziwe
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/141900
- Identifier
- vital:38014
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2017.1292119
- Description
- The call for the ‘transformation’ of higher education in South Africa is one instance of a wider effort, since the country’s first democratic election in 1994, to surmount an apartheid and colonial legacy of institutionalised racism. In 2015 and 2016 nationwide protests led to universities being shut down as students and staff expressed frustration institutions that continue to be experienced as racist and ‘untransformed’. In this study we report on interviews conducted with senior white academics at one South African university shortly before these protests began. Given that our participants are people of influence in their respective university departments, we asked, in in-depth open-ended interviews, what contribution they saw themselves making to ‘transformation’. We argue that the talk of these participants could be described as what authors in the field call 'racetalk', Talk is understood here as a form of social practice, the analysis of which helps us to understand how racism is reproduced in mundane ways which, taken together, account for the persistence of pervasive institutionalised racism in South African higher education that appears impervious to policy and regime change.
- Format
- 15 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Identities
- Relation
- Vincent, L., Idahosa, G. and Msomi, Z., 2017. Disclaiming/denigrating/dodging: white South African academics’ everyday racetalk. African Identities, 15(3), pp.324-338.
- Relation
- African Identities volume 15 number 3 324 338 February 2017 1472-5851
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