Race, discrimination and diversity in South Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Seekings, Jeremy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-10T09:19:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-10T09:19:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-10T09:13:53Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The end of apartheid has brought a resurgence of research into racial identities, attitudes and behaviour in South Africa.? The legacy of systematic racial ordering and discrimination under apartheid is that South Africa remains deeply racialised, in cultural and social terms, as well as deeply unequal, in terms of the distribution of income and opportunities. ?South Africans continue to see themselves in the racial categories of the apartheid era, in part because these categories have become the basis for post-apartheid 'redress', in part because they retain cultural meaning in everyday life.? South Africans continue to inhabit social worlds that are largely defined by race, and many express negative views of other racial groups.? There has been little racial integration in residential areas, although schools provide an important opportunity for inter-racial interaction for middle-class children.? Experimental and survey research provide little evidence of racism, however.? Few people complain about racial discrimination, although many report everyday experiences that might be understood as discriminatory.? Racial discrimination per se seems to be of minor importance in shaping opportunities in post-apartheid South Africa.? Far more important are the disadvantages of class, exacerbated by neighbourhood effects: poor schooling, a lack of footholds in the labour market, a lack of financial capital.? The relationship between race and class is now very much weaker than in the past.? Overall, race remains very important in cultural and social terms, but no longer structures economic advantage and disadvantage.? Post-apartheid South Africa is thus the precise opposite of Brazil. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Seekings, J. (2007). <i>Race, discrimination and diversity in South Africa</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19544 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Seekings, Jeremy <i>Race, discrimination and diversity in South Africa.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19544 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Seekings, J. (2007). Race, discrimination and diversity in South Africa. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Seekings, Jeremy AB - The end of apartheid has brought a resurgence of research into racial identities, attitudes and behaviour in South Africa.? The legacy of systematic racial ordering and discrimination under apartheid is that South Africa remains deeply racialised, in cultural and social terms, as well as deeply unequal, in terms of the distribution of income and opportunities. ?South Africans continue to see themselves in the racial categories of the apartheid era, in part because these categories have become the basis for post-apartheid 'redress', in part because they retain cultural meaning in everyday life.? South Africans continue to inhabit social worlds that are largely defined by race, and many express negative views of other racial groups.? There has been little racial integration in residential areas, although schools provide an important opportunity for inter-racial interaction for middle-class children.? Experimental and survey research provide little evidence of racism, however.? Few people complain about racial discrimination, although many report everyday experiences that might be understood as discriminatory.? Racial discrimination per se seems to be of minor importance in shaping opportunities in post-apartheid South Africa.? Far more important are the disadvantages of class, exacerbated by neighbourhood effects: poor schooling, a lack of footholds in the labour market, a lack of financial capital.? The relationship between race and class is now very much weaker than in the past.? Overall, race remains very important in cultural and social terms, but no longer structures economic advantage and disadvantage.? Post-apartheid South Africa is thus the precise opposite of Brazil. DA - 2007 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2007 T1 - Race, discrimination and diversity in South Africa TI - Race, discrimination and diversity in South Africa UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19544 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19544 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Seekings J. Race, discrimination and diversity in South Africa. 2007 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19544 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za | |
| dc.subject.other | Race | |
| dc.subject.other | Discrimination | |
| dc.subject.other | Diversity | |
| dc.subject.other | South Africa | |
| dc.title | Race, discrimination and diversity in South Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
| uct.type.filetype | Image | |
| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |