Systemic Racism in South Africa

Humanity Lost
2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-8528-5
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 315 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

This book takes a critical macro-level political sociological perspective to understanding South African politics and society. Applying systemic racism theory to South Africa, the author argues that South African society through its exclusionary social mechanisms has assumed a systemically racist form that deeply compromises questions of truth and justice. Constitutive of, and embedded in, the structure of South African society, racismhas a reach and a durability that runs deep through the successive stages of segregationism, apartheid, and liberal democracy.

Showing the limits of the rule of law in a racist society, the author offers a theoretically-informed interpretation as to why the national liberation struggle has fallen short of its promise to deliver a “better life for all,” and as to why truth and justice remain so deeply compromised in South Africa today. The arguments advanced are supported by over thirty semi-structured interviews conducted by the author with high-profile South African politicians, jurists, and intellectuals; as well as by using Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing transcripts – both public and “top-secret.”

This thought-provoking book is driven by the imperative to offer a compelling and sustained argument for taking a systemic racism approach to interpreting South Africa for scholars and students of sociology, political science, race and ethnic studies, law, and South African history.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Rupert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Racism Is a System.- 2 Apartheid as Systemic Racism.- 3 The Good White South African.- 4 Enlightened Afrikanerdom.- 5 The Chosen Path.- 6 Truth Omission.- 7 Judicial Criminality.- 8 The Just Judges?.- 9 Locked in Systemic Racism.- 10 Reckoning.

Über Autor(innen)

Rupert Taylor is a British political sociologist and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. A Research Associate of the  University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Rupert has served as Editor-in-Chief of  and  and published in journals such as , , , , and .