1st Edition
Racism, Violence, Betrayals and New Imaginaries Feminist Voices
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
ǂAn: (the visceral in the experience of body politics, perception and sensation): An open letter
Monique Tamara (van Vuuren)
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Index
Biography
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.
‘This is an important work by black feminists from the South, and especially the contributions made by the young black upcoming feminist writers.’
— Mary Hames, Head of Gender Equity Unit, University of the Western Cape
