Ongoing contestations: The use of racial signifiers in post-apartheid South Africa

Social Identities

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 247-260

  Hammett, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coloured; Erasure; Race; Reification; South Africa

Indexed keywords

IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; POST-APARTHEID; RACE; RACIAL DISPARITY; SOCIAL HISTORY;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 77951202103     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: 13630296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504631003691090     Document Type: Article

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