Who Is an African?
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Who Is an African?

Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa

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Who Is an African?

Race, Identity, and Destiny in Post-apartheid South Africa

About this book

The subject of race and identity is a burning issue which continues to occupy the attention not only of South Africans but also the wider residents of the continent of Africa and those who are Africans in the Diaspora. The outburst of xenophobic attacks against foreigners mostly of Black African origins in some communities of Kwa-Zulu Natal and areas of Johannesburg during 2008 and 2015 has raised questions about the social cohesion of South African society linked to unresolved structural identity issues bequeathed by the nation's past colonial and apartheid legacy. This publication argues that there is an embedded schizophrenic identity crisis within the society that requires scholarly interrogation. The chapters assemble scholarly voices from different ethnic groups that examine the central research question of this study: Who is an African? Within the wider Southern African context, identity and ethnicity politics are framing nationalist economic policies and are impacting on social cohesion within many countries. Writing from different social and racial locations the authors have critically engaged with the central question and offer some important insights that can serve as a resource for all nations grappling with issues of race, ethnicity, identity constructed politics, and social cohesion.

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Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Who Is an African?
  5. Part I: Racism, Xenophobia, and Cultural Identity
  6. Chapter 1: The Changing Salience of Race
  7. Chapter 2: Cracking the Skull of Racism in South Africa Post-1994
  8. Chapter 3: Black Solidarity Impaled
  9. Chapter 4: Race, Place, and Indian Identities in Contemporary South Africa
  10. Chapter 5: Liberating Identifications
  11. Chapter 6: Umuntu Akalahlwa
  12. Part II: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Cohesion
  13. Chapter 7: “I Am Born of a People Who Would Not Tolerate Oppression”1
  14. Chapter 8: Identity Construction of African Women in the Midst of Land Dispossession
  15. Chapter 9: Reenacting “Destiny”
  16. Chapter 10: “Some LGBTIQs Are More Unequal than Others”
  17. Chapter 11: Rituals of Female Solidarity
  18. Part III: Religion, Protest, and Africanness
  19. Chapter 12: “Sing unto the LORD a New Song” (Psalm 98:1)
  20. Chapter 13: Rastafari Perspectives on African Identities
  21. Chapter 14: On Locating Islam and African Muslim Identity within Africana/Islamica Existential Thought
  22. Chapter 15: Urban Immigrant Pentecostal Missiology
  23. Chapter 16: Why Read the West?
  24. Selected Bibliography
  25. About the Editors and Contributors