'Slaughter in the suburbs': Livestock slaughter and race in post-apartheid cities

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1069-1087

  Ballard, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Animal slaughter; Integration; Race; South Africa; Suburbs; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

BLACK POPULATION; CITIZENSHIP; CULTURAL TRADITION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MATERIAL CULTURE; POST-APARTHEID; PUBLIC SPACE; RACE; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 77951897775     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870903477320     Document Type: Article

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