- Title
- Becoming African: debating post-apartheid white South African identities
- Creator
- Matthews, Sally
- Date Issued
- 2011
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142409
- Identifier
- vital:38077
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/14725843.2011.530440
- Description
- The post-apartheid era necessitates the rethinking of white identities in South Africa. One way in which some white South Africans are seeking to redefine themselves is through describing themselves as African. However, claims by white South Africans that they too are Africans have been met with mixed responses from black South Africans. In this article I use contributions to an online university students' forum to explore ways in which some white South Africans are embracing an African identity and to consider ways in which some black South Africans are responding to white South Africans' shifting identities. I use contributions to this forum as a starting point to think about the possibilities and limitations that the embracing of an African identity has for the development of what Frankenberg calls ‘anti-racist forms of whiteness’ among white South Africans.
- Format
- 17 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Identities
- Relation
- Matthews, S., 2011. Becoming African: debating post-apartheid white South African identities. African Identities, 9(01), pp.1-17.
- Relation
- African Identities volume 9 number 1 1 17 February 2011 1472-5851
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