Racism, Violence, Betrayals and New Imaginaries

This anthology consists of academic essays, creative non-fiction, poetry and short stories on race and racism by black women from South Africa and Brazil.

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Nadia Sanger is senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Stellenbosch University.

Benita Moolman is programme manager and senior lecturer at the Global Citizenship Programme at the University of Cape Town.

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Writing our freedom: Stepping into and outside of neoliberal racism in South Africa

Nadia Sanger and Benita Moolman

PART 1: WHAT WE HAVE INHERITED: INSTITUTIONAL AND TRANSGENERATIONAL RACE VIOLENCE

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Vanessa R. Ludwig

Invisible violence, invisible wounding: Effects of internalised racism in South Africa

Sarah Malotane Henkeman

Pedagogies of betrayal: A meditation on internalised racism

Kharnita Mohamed

Forgive them Lorde, for they know not what they do: Whiteness as suicide ideation

Yvette Abrahams

Claustrophobic and unable to move: Representations and social discourses of racism and inequality in the Western Cape media

Benita Moolman and Dane Isaacs

PART 2: DEALING WITH INHERITANCE: RECLAIMING AND RECOGNISING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PERSON OF COLOUR

Don't call me a Boesman

Jolyn Phillips

Two continents, one legacy: Psycho-emotional effects of racism in the history of two young women from Africa and the diaspora

Liliane Braga and Luciana Braga (translated by Julian Cola)

What's in a name?

Xolani S. Ngazimbi

The naked women of 9th Street

Wanelisa Xaba

Race, class and in/hospitability in Cape Town: Detections and reflections

Nadia Sanger

was my mother

Delia Meyer

Embodying power through the 'maid's uniform': Review of photographs by Zanele Muholi and Mary Sibande

Tigist Shewarega Hussen

An: (the visceral in the experience of body politics, perception and sensation): An open letter

Monique Tamara (van Vuuren)

Contributors

Acknowledgements

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