{"id":43084,"date":"2015-10-05T18:29:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43084"},"modified":"2015-10-05T18:29:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T18:29:32","slug":"whither-non-racialism-the-new-south-africa-turns-twenty-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43084","title":{"rendered":"Whither \u2018non-racialism\u2019: the \u2018new\u2019 South Africa turns twenty-one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2015.1058511\" target=\"_blank\">Whither \u2018non-racialism\u2019: the \u2018new\u2019 South Africa turns twenty-one<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/rers20\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/38\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 38, Issue 13, 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 2167-2174<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2015.1058511\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2015.1058511<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Deborah.Posel@uct.ac.za\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Deborah Posel<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/huma.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Humanities in Africa<\/a> (HUMA)<br \/>\n<em>University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This brief essay reflects on the meaning and significance of \u2018non-racialism\u2019 in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa&#8217;s<\/a> recent past and present. I consider the version of non-racialism that shaped the transition from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apartheid\" target=\"_blank\">apartheid <\/a>to a constitutional democracy as having had dual dimensions, ethical and strategic. Ethically, non-racialism has signified a principle of human recognition that exceeds the mere tolerance of difference. Strategically, non-racialism has afforded ways of managing and disciplining the historical realities of racial differences. The politicization of race in recent years has rendered the project of non-racialism more precarious: both its ethical and strategic dimensions merit further scrutiny, if the project is to be revitalized.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/01419870.2015.1058511\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whither \u2018non-racialism\u2019: the \u2018new\u2019 South Africa turns twenty-one Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 38, Issue 13, 2015 pages 2167-2174 DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2015.1058511 Deborah Posel, Professor of Sociology Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa This brief essay reflects on the meaning and significance of \u2018non-racialism\u2019 in South Africa&#8217;s recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,8,26,394,520],"tags":[21289,461],"class_list":["post-43084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","tag-deborah-posel","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43085,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43084\/revisions\/43085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}