Race for Education - Gender, White Tone, and Schooling in South Africa

An examination of families and schools in South Africa, revealing how the marketisation of schooling works to uphold the privilege of whiteness.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Racial Modernism, 1950s and '60s: 2. 'Larney' and 'rough and tough' schools: the making of White Durban; 3. Umlazi township and the gendered 'bond of education'; Part II. Marketised Assimilation, late 1970s-1990s: 4. The routes of schooling desegregation: protest, cooption, and marketised assimilation, 1976-2000; Part III. Schooling and Work after Apartheid: 5. From school to work: symbolic power and social networks; Part IV. Racialised Market, 2000s-: 6. 'What can you do for the school?' The racialised market, 2000s-; 7. New families on the bluff: selling a child in the schooling market; 8. Beneath the 'black tax' in Umlazi: class, family relations and schooling; 9. Conclusions: hegemony on a school bus.

About the author

Mark Hunter is Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto. His research methods combine ethnographic, historical, and geographical techniques and his first book, Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality, Gender, and Rights in South Africa (2010), won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize and the 2010 C. Wright Mills Award.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Hunter, Mark (University of Toronto) Hunter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108480529
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48052-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The International African Library; The International African Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Africa / General, Social & cultural history, 21st Century, Republic of South Africa, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Educational strategies & policy, African History, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Educational strategies and policy, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity