What Racists Believe: Race Relations in South Africa and the United States

by Gerhard Schutte

Overview

Despite its legal abolition, racial inequality persists in many democratic societies. Entering a new era of democracy, South Africa is endeavouring to dismantle its legally structured system of inequality. In practice, however, the structures of consciousness which gave rise to and nurtured a system of white privilege and predominance are tenacious and enduring.

In What Racists Believe, Gerhard Schutte examines evidence which illustrates how the consciousness of whites in South Africa has been reproduced and maintained, revealing a range of social constructions and typifications of blacks. He concludes with a chapter comparing contemporary racial attitudes in South Africa and the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803957855
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	12/07/1994
Series:	SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations , #8
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Perspective
White Solidarity?
The Emergence of the Past
The Construction of the Present
Official, Media and Religious Versions
Public Discourse and the Reconstruction of South Africa I
Right-Wing Perspectives
Public Discourse and the Reconstruction of South Africa II
Government, Corporate and Academic Perspectives
The World of Whites
Structure and Experience
Whites in the Countryside
Whites in Town I
Conservative Perspectives
Whites in Town II
Moderate Perspectives
Race and Discourse
Whites in American Race Relations
A Comparison