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This book is an in-depth conversation and study about issues of African identity in South Africa. It aims to inform policy development and change in the role of race and ethnic identity within the "rainbow" configuration of nation building.
List of contents
Foreword: Marshall W. Murphree
Foreword: Nobuhle Hlongwa
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: Who is an African?
Roderick R. Hewitt
Chammah J. Kaunda
PART I: RACISM, XENOPHOBIA AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
The Changing Salience of Race: Discrimination and Diversity in South Africa
Jeremy Seekings, University of Cape Town
Cracking the Skull of Racism in South Africa Post-1994
Vuyani S. Vellem, University of Pretoria
Black Solidarity Impaled: The Cause of Afrophobia
Bernard Matolino, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Race, Place and Indian Identities in Contemporary South Africa
Goolam Vahed, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Ashwin Desai, University of Johannesburg
Liberating Identifications: Being Black Conscious, Being Non-Racial, Being African
Nico Botha, University of South Africa
Umuntu Akalahlwa: An Exploration of an African Ethics
Sibusiso Masondo, University of KwaZulu-Natal
PART II: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND SOCIAL COHESION
"I am Born of a People Who Would Not Tolerate Oppression": The Role of Indian Women's Movements in Social Transformation
Rowanne S. Marie, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary
Identity Construction of African Women in the Midst of Land Dispossession
Maserole Kgari-Masondo, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Re-enacting "Destiny": Masculinity and Afrikaner Identity in "Religious" Post-Apartheid South Africa
Kennedy Owino, Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary/University of KwaZulu-Natal
"Some LGBTIQs Are More Unequal than Others": Determinants of LGBTIQ Marginality in South Africa
Scott Everett Couper, University of KwaZulu-Natal/Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary
Rituals of Female Solidarity: The Role of Imbusa in Promoting Social Cohesion among Married Women in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Mutale M. Kaunda, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Chammah J. Kaunda, University of South Africa
PART III: RELIGION, PROTEST, AND AFRICANNESS
"Sing unto the LORD a New Song" (Psalm 98:1): Aspects of the Afrikaans Punk-Rock Group Fokofpolisiekar's Musical Spirituality as Rearticulated Aspects of the 1978 Afrikaans Psalm- en Gesangeboek
Christo Lombaard, University of South Africa
Rastafari Perspectives on African Identities: Lucky Dube's "Different Colours / One People" in Conversation with Peter Tosh's "I Am an African"
Roderick R. Hewitt, University of KwaZulu-Natal
On Locating Islam and African Muslim Identity within Black/Africana Existential Thought: A Preview
Tahir Fuzile Sitoto, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Urban Immigrant Pentecostal Missiology: The Case of an Immigrant Zambian Pentecostal Pastor in South Africa
Chammah J. Kaunda, University of South Africa
Why Read the West? Messianicity and Canonicity within a Postcolonial, South African Context
Justin Sands, North-West University Potchefstroom
About the author
Roderick R. Hewitt is academic leader for research and higher degrees in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Chammah J. Kaunda is Africa Research Fellow, Senior Research Specialist in Human Development Science of the Human Sciences Research Council (HDS-HSRC), and honorary lecturer in the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
