Discourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africans

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dc.contributor.advisorFoster, Donen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSalusbury, Theresaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-08T20:02:26Z
dc.date.available2015-01-08T20:02:26Z
dc.date.issued2003en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 126-139.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractGiven South Africa's ethnic complexities, comparatively little has been written about the group known as white English-speaking South Africans, or WESSAs. This is partly because of the lack of collective sentiment shared by people categorised as WESSAs, partly because the group boundaries are not clear-cut, and partly because on the surface there appears to be little that can be said about them. Besides a proclivity for business, a continued attachment to Europe and an apparent inability to organise politically, the acollectivity of the group has been the focus of the literature on the subject, and its cause has been a matter of some bewilderment on the part of authors. This work examines WESSA identity from a new perspective, one influenced by the proliferation of writings on the topic of "whiteness" in Europe and America in recent years. These writings concentrate on how whiteness as a set of discourses positions being white as neutral or "raceless", in contrast to other race groups who are constructed as "ethnic".en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSalusbury, T. (2003). <i>Discourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africans</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11798en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSalusbury, Theresa. <i>"Discourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africans."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11798en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSalusbury, T. 2003. Discourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africans. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Salusbury, Theresa AB - Given South Africa's ethnic complexities, comparatively little has been written about the group known as white English-speaking South Africans, or WESSAs. This is partly because of the lack of collective sentiment shared by people categorised as WESSAs, partly because the group boundaries are not clear-cut, and partly because on the surface there appears to be little that can be said about them. Besides a proclivity for business, a continued attachment to Europe and an apparent inability to organise politically, the acollectivity of the group has been the focus of the literature on the subject, and its cause has been a matter of some bewilderment on the part of authors. This work examines WESSA identity from a new perspective, one influenced by the proliferation of writings on the topic of "whiteness" in Europe and America in recent years. These writings concentrate on how whiteness as a set of discourses positions being white as neutral or "raceless", in contrast to other race groups who are constructed as "ethnic". DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 T1 - Discourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africans TI - Discourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africans UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11798 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/11798
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSalusbury T. Discourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africans. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Psychology, 2003 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11798en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherResearch Psychologyen_ZA
dc.titleDiscourses of whiteness informing the identity of white English-speaking South Africansen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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