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What Racists Believe
Race Relations in South Africa and the United States
- Gerhard Schutte - University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI
Volume:
8
Other Titles in:
Ethnic Studies (General)
Ethnic Studies (General)
February 1995 | 400 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
Despite its legal abolition, racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy, South Africa is endeavouring to dismantle its legally structured system of inequality. In practice, however, the structures of consciousness which gave rise to and nurtured a system of white privilege and predominance are tenacious and enduring.
In What Racists Believe, Gerhard Schutte examines evidence which illustrates how the consciousness of whites in South Africa has been reproduced and maintained, revealing a range of social constructions and typifications of blacks. He concludes with a chapter comparing contemporary racial attitudes in South Africa and the United States.
Introduction
Perspective
The Emergence of the Past
The Construction of the Present
Public Discourse and the Reconstruction of South Africa I
Public Discourse and the Reconstruction of South Africa II
The World of Whites
Whites in the Countryside
Whites in Town I
Whites in Town II
Race and Discourse
Whites in American Race Relations