
The Colour of Our Future
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South Africa is ready for a new vocabulary than can form the basis for a national consciousness which recognises racialised identities while affirming that, as human beings, we are much more than our racial, sexual, class, religious or national identities.
The Colour of Our Future makes a bold and ambitious contribution to the discourse on race. It addresses the tension between the promise of a post-racial society and the persistence of racialised identities in South Africa, which has historically played itself out in debates between the 'I don't see race' of non-racialism and the 'I'm proud to be black' of black consciousness.
The chapters in this volume highlight the need for a race-transcendent vision that moves beyond 'the festival of negatives' embodied in concepts such as non-racialism, non-sexism, anti-colonialism and anti-apartheid. Steve Biko's notion of a 'joint culture' is the scaffold on which this vision rests; it recognises that a race-transcendent society can only be built by acknowledging the constituent elements of South Africa's EuroAfricanAsian heritage.
The distinguished authors in this volume have, over the past two decades, used the democratic space to insert into the public domain new conversations around the intersections of race and the economy, race and the state, race and the environment, race and ethnic difference, and race and higher education. Presented here is some of their most trenchant and yet still evolving thinking.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter One: What Moving Beyond Race Can Actually Mean: Towards a Joint Culture
- Non-racialism and black consciousness: two sides of a coin?
- A multi-racial society in an anti-racist democracy
- Towards a joint culture
- Chapter Two: The Colour of Our Past and Present: The Evolution of Human Skin Pigmentation
- Dark skin as a natural sunscreen
- Vitamin D and the development of light skin
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter Three: Races, Racialised Groups and Racial Identity: Perspectives from South Africa and the United States
- The social reality of racialisation
- Racialised groups
- Can a racial(ised) identity be a positive identity?
- Confusions in ka appiah's view of race and racial identity
- Racialised groups and the south african context: the views of neville alexander
- Other criticisms of racialised group identities
- Race-blindness in the usa and south africa
- Chapter Four: The Janus Face of the Past: Preserving and Resisting South African Path Dependence
- The contours of path dependence
- Beyond path dependence
- Chapter Five: How Black is the Future of Green in South Africa's Urban Future?
- Contesting integration
- Banks and valuation rolls
- Unintended racial and class implications of joe slovo's housing policy
- Breaking new ground
- Putting sustainability back into 'integrated sustainable human settlements'
- Towards integrated liveable urbanism: lessons from Lynedoch ecovillage
- Postscript
- Appendix
- Chapter Six: Inequality in Democratic South Africa
- The disciplining power of global capital
- The state of inequality
- Political patronage and inequality
- Policy implications
- Conclusion
- Chapter Seven: Interrogating the Concept and Dynamics of Race in Public Policy
- Race, status and political equality
- The colour of the present
- Painting the colour of the future
- Paradigm of intellectual discourse
- Responsibility of leadership
- Conclusion
- Chapter Eight: Why I Am No Longer a Non-Racialist: Identity and Difference
- Non-racialism and its discontents
- Alternatives to non-racialism
- Non-racialism and political equality in western thought
- A politics of difference without guarantees?
- Alternative political modernities
- Chapter Nine: Interrogating Transformation in South African Higher Education
- Towards an understanding of transformation in higher education
- The sociological nature of the south african higher education landscape
- Knowledge from every quarter? the knowledge landscape
- Conclusion
- Chapter Ten: The Black Interpreters and the Arch of History
- From heroism to interpretation
- Accomplishing the age
- The early black interpreters and what they have to teach us
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index
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