An emerging black identity in contemporary South Africa.
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2008
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This study aims to understand emerging black identities in contemporary South Africa. The focus is on the impact the radical transformation of the political and social system in South Africa is having on black identity. This study emphasises two key ideas: possibilities for the construction of black identity and the significance of apartheid on black identity, and how these two factors have impacted on the construction of black identity. A reflection on the work of Biko (1978) is used as the key theoretical framework for this study to understand the construction of black identity in the process of encounter with whiteness and encounter with racism. In this thesis, black peopleās autobiographies have been studied as a site where shared images of the past are actively produced and circulated: a site where a collective engagement with the past is both reflected and constructed.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.
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Theses--Psychology., Blacks--Race identity--South Africa., Racism--South Africa., South Africa--Race relations., South Africa--Politics and government.