Evidentiary genocide : intersections of race, power and the archive / Xolela Mangcu -- The transmission lines of the new African movement / Ntongela Masilela -- Some do contest the assertion that I am an African / Frederick van Zyl Slabbert -- Africa in Europe, Egypt in Greece / Martin Bernal -- Unconquered and insubordinate : embracing black feminist intellectual activist legacies / Pumla Dineo Gqola -- Identity, politics and the archive / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- The goodness of nations / Benedict Anderson -- Why archive matters : archive, public deliberation and citizenship / Carolyn Hamilton.
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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AbstractOn 14 June 2014 the Council of the University of Cape Town (UCT) voted to change race-based affirmative action in student admissions. The Council was ratifying an earlier decision by the predominantly White University Senate. According to the new policy race would be considered as only one among several factors, with the greater emphasis now being economic disadvantage. This paper argues that the new emphasis on economic disadvantage is a reflection of a long-standing tendency among left-liberal White academics to downplay race and privilege economic factors in their analysis of disadvantage in South Africa. The arguments behind the decision were that (1) race is an unscientific concept that takes South Africa back to apartheid-era thinking, and (2) that race should be replaced by class or economic disadvantage. These arguments are based on the assumption that race is a recent product of eighteenth century racism, and therefore an immoral and illegitimate social concept.Drawing on the non-biologistic approaches to race adopted by W. E. B. Du Bois, Tiyo Soga, Pixley ka Seme, S. E. K. Mqhayi, and Steve Biko, this paper argues that awareness of Black perspectives on race as a historical and cultural concept should have led to an appreciation of race as an integral part of people's identities, particularly those of the Black students on campus. Instead of engaging with these Black intellectual traditions, White academics railroaded their decisions through the governing structures. This decision played a part in the emergence of the #RhodesMustFall movement at UCT.This paper argues that South African sociology must place Black perspectives on race at the center of its curriculum. These perspectives have been expressed by Black writers since the emergence of a Black literary culture in the middle of the nineteenth century. These perspectives constitute what Henry Louis Gates, Jr. calls a shared "text of Blackness" (Gates 2014, p. 140). This would provide a practical example of the decolonization of the curriculum demanded by students throughout the university system.
The contribution of Xolela Mangcu (...) serves as a useful reference point on the national identity of race for foreign policy. (...) Mangcu's thesis is that 'South Africa's ability to project herself internationally will in the first place depend on developing her own self-image', which is suggestive of the contingency of a white politics of reconciliation that acknowledges collective responsibility for the depredations of apartheid as opposed to 'individual self-absolution from the white past'. This line of reasoning leads into an interesting terrain for further development; one that engages the notion of a pluralistic conception of the African Renaissance as a 'civil religion'. As such, it should accommodate ethno-linguistic as well as racial identities in the construction of a South African identity that informs the country's relations in the rest of Africa and in the world at large. (SAJIA/DÜI)
