The Racialising Process: Whites Writing Whiteness in Letters, South Africa 1770s-1970s
Language: English
Published by Imprint: Independently published, 2017
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- Title
- The Racialising Process: Whites Writing Whiteness in Letters, South Africa 1770s-1970s
- Author
- Stanley, Liz
- Publisher
- Imprint: Independently published
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1521403643
- ISBN 13
- 9781521403648
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 18 ounces
- Dimensions
- 6x0x9
The Racialising Process
- Why did South Africa develop the racial order that it did?
- What part did ordinary white people play in this?
- Why did racialisation, segregation and apartheid come into existence? - How did changes occur and the democratic transition happen?
- How did white people represent black people and ‘race’ to each other, ‘in private’ in their letters?
The Racialising Process explores how white people from the 1770s to the 1970s in South Africa depicted whiteness and its racialised Others of black, coloured, Indian Chinese and other groups, focusing on their letters. It discusses many detailed examples drawn from a wide array of letters and explores the complexities in what people wrote and how to interpret this.
It shows that there has been a long term racialising process with distinctive features organised around regulation and categorisation, making the South African experience significantly different from the ‘de/civilising process’ that the sociologist Norbert Elidas identified in Europe.
Book Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Whites Writing, Letters & Social Change
Chapter 2. Doing the Archival Research: Groundwork, Regarding Paton, Shepstone & Nomalanga’s Baby
Chapter 3. Figurational Analysis: On the LMS, Findlay, Price, Rhodes & Other Collections
Chapter 4. Traces Remaining: Anna’s Indentures, the Hemmings & Nannie, & Mark Pringle’s Diary
Chapter 5. On Categories: Gottlob Schreiner & ‘the Hand of the Lord’, CR Prance & ‘Inferior Blood’
Chapter 6. Events, Including Soweto, Marikana & the Lovedale Riot
Chapter 7. Rough Workings: Scribblings, Including Bessie Price’s Wagon Wheel & a Panikin Filled to the Brim
Chapter 8. Theorising Letters, Including About ‘the Boy’, ‘the Coolie’ & the ‘N Word’
Chapter 9. Regulation, the Contract & the Pass: ‘The Bearers 2 Kafirs With Parcels’
Chapter 10. Analysing the Racialising Process
The Author
Liz Stanley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. She has been doing research about South Africa’s past since discovering the political essays of Olive Schreiner. Since 1994 Liz has lived for extended research periods in Grahamstown, Cape Town, Pretoria and Bloemfontein. Previous books on South African topics include Mourning Becomes… The Concentration Camps of the South African War (MUP, 2008) and The World’s Great Question: Olive Schreiner’s South African Letters (Van Riebeeck, 2014).
And For More…
For more on ‘Whites Writing Whiteness’ in their letters, additional examples, analyses of more letters and other documents, editorial information, and a searchable research database, please go to the WWW website at http://www.whiteswritingwhiteness.org
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