Rehabilitating a whiteness disgraced: Afrikaner white talk in post‐apartheid South Africa

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-169

  Steyn, Melissa E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Afrikaner; Discourse; Identity; South Africa; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927584778     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463370409370187     Document Type: Article

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