Confronting the categories: Equitable admissions without apartheid race classification
| dc.contributor.author | Erasmus, Zimitri | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-23T12:56:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-10-23T12:56:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-14T08:16:10Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | South Africa’s government requires information on apartheid race classification to implement and monitor racial redress. This has sparked resistance to race classification as a criterion for redress in higher education admissions. I argue that (1) jettisoning apartheid race categories now in favour of either class or ‘merit’ would set back the few gains made toward redress; (2) against common sense uses of ‘race’ and against the erasure of ‘race’ through class reductionism; and (3) for developing and testing new indicators for ‘race’ and class disadvantage with a view to eventually replacing apartheid race categories. I offer a critical-race-standpoint as an alternative conceptual orientation and method for transformative admissions committed to racial redress that is socially just. I conclude that admissions criteria should encompass the lived realities of inequality and be informed by a conception of humanism as critique. This requires resistance to ways of knowing orchestrated by apartheid’s codes. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Erasmus, Z. (2010). Confronting the categories: Equitable admissions without apartheid race classification. <i>South African Journal of Higher Education</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25751 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Erasmus, Zimitri "Confronting the categories: Equitable admissions without apartheid race classification." <i>South African Journal of Higher Education</i> (2010) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25751 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Erasmus, Z. (2010). Confronting the categories: Equitable admissions without apartheid race classification. South African Journal of Higher Education, 24(2), 244-257. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Erasmus, Zimitri AB - South Africa’s government requires information on apartheid race classification to implement and monitor racial redress. This has sparked resistance to race classification as a criterion for redress in higher education admissions. I argue that (1) jettisoning apartheid race categories now in favour of either class or ‘merit’ would set back the few gains made toward redress; (2) against common sense uses of ‘race’ and against the erasure of ‘race’ through class reductionism; and (3) for developing and testing new indicators for ‘race’ and class disadvantage with a view to eventually replacing apartheid race categories. I offer a critical-race-standpoint as an alternative conceptual orientation and method for transformative admissions committed to racial redress that is socially just. I conclude that admissions criteria should encompass the lived realities of inequality and be informed by a conception of humanism as critique. This requires resistance to ways of knowing orchestrated by apartheid’s codes. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Journal of Higher Education LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Confronting the categories: Equitable admissions without apartheid race classification TI - Confronting the categories: Equitable admissions without apartheid race classification UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25751 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25751 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Erasmus Z. Confronting the categories: Equitable admissions without apartheid race classification. South African Journal of Higher Education. 2010; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25751. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Sociology | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Journal of Higher Education | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.journals.ac.za/index.php/sajhe | |
| dc.title | Confronting the categories: Equitable admissions without apartheid race classification | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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