Browsing by Subject "whiteness"

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    Black Adam: end of the white guy?
    (2010) Steyn, Melissa; McEwen, Haley; Wilhelm, Dominic
    This website features video material that can be used by educators and facilitators to generate discussion of whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa and the post-colonial world in general. While there are infinite ways in which an educator or facilitator could employ the DVD as a resource, below you will find instructions and discussion questions according to our vision for using it as a teaching tool as part of our Diversity Studies Honours and Masters programmes at the University of Cape Town. Ideally, the DVD will be used alongside relevant critical whiteness theory.
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    Unearthing white academics’ experience of teaching in higher education in South Africa
    (Taylor & Francis, 2016-06) Jawitz, Jeff
    The real and imagined racial differences and similarities between groups of students and staff have consequences in everyday experiences in South Africa. One aspect of engaging with the challenges facing higher education transformation post-Apartheid is through understanding how the racialized context interacts with the experience of teaching. This paper reports on what the narratives of four white academics reveal about their experience of teaching at the University of Cape Town (UCT). It analyses indicators of their identity as white academics and how they are both positioned and actively position themselves in relation to students and other academics at UCT. Their narratives reveal how academics simultaneously grapple with the privileges and limitations that accompany identifying as white. These tensions are explored through issues of black student development amid an alienating institutional culture and opposition to the behaviour of their white colleagues.