Passages to freedom: The politics of racial reconciliation in South Africa

Public Culture

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-18

  Mbembe, Achille ^a  

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EID: 41149116642     PISSN: 08992363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-2007-012     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Kamari Maxine Clarke, ed., Globalization and Race: Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006), 9.
2. See, for instance, Wonder Hlongwa, "A Place Where Black Life Is Cheap," City Press, July 22, 2007.
3. Department of Labour, Commission of Employment Equity Annual Report 2006-2007 (Pretoria, South Africa: Government Printers, 2007).
4. Sarah Nuttall, "Stylizing the Self: The Y Generation in Rosebank, Johannesburg," Public Culture 16 (2004): 430-52.
5. On these questions, see Achille Mbembe, "African Modes of Self-Writing," Public Culture 14 (2002): 239-79.
6. W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (New York: Atheneum, 1992).
7. See Linda Faye Williams, The Constraint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003).
8. Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman, White-Washing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
9. See Stanley Uys, "Afrikaners 'Tired of Saying Sorry,'" ever-fasternews.com, June 13, 2007, www.ever-fasternews.com/index.php? php_action=read_article&article_id=440.
10. "It has enriched only a small elite," writes Nikki de Havilland, deputy director of the F. W. de Klerk Foundation Centre for Constitutional Rights. It only favors "well-connected businessmen for state contracts," he adds. See "Affirmative Action Is Not Working," Legalbrief Today, April 26, 2007, www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story= 20070426162211935.
11. Read Thomas Sowell, Affirmative Action Around the World (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2004).
12. For a local version of casuistry and formalism, see David Benatar, "Affirmative Action Not the Way to Tackle Injustice," ever-fasternews.com, April 14, 2007, www.ever-fasternews .com/index.php? php_action=read_article&article_id=376.
13. Moeletsi Mbeki, "Concepts of Transformation and the Social Structure of South Africa," in Visions of Black Economic Empowerment (Johannesburg: David Krut, 2007), 216-26.
14. Blade Nzimande, in Umsebenzi Online, the online journal of the South African Communist Party, October 6, 2004, www.sacp.org.za.
15. Khehla Shubane, "An Argument for Capital Concentration and Socially Responsible Investing," in Visions, 162-76.
16. Colin Bundy, The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry (London: Heinemann, 1979).
17. Hermann Giliomee, The Afrikaners: Biography of a People (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2003).
18. Sampie Terreblanche, A History of Inequality in South Africa, 1652-2002 (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: University of Natal Press, 2002).
19. This is not dissimilar to how black people's experiences in slavery shaped their lives in freedom in the southern part of the United States. See Susan Eva O'Donovan, Becoming Free in the Cotton South (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007).