Race otherwise : forging a new humanism for South Africa / Zimitri Erasmus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erasmus, Zimitri, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanism--South Africa.

Humanism.

Racism--South Africa.

Racism.

Race awareness--South Africa.

Race awareness.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 195 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Race Otherwise: Forging a New Humanism for South Africa Zimitri Erasmus questions the notion that one can know 'race' with one's eyes, or through racial categories and or genetic ancestry tests. She moves between the intimate probing of racial identities as we experience them individually, and analysis of the global historical forces that have created these identities and woven them into our thinking about what it means to be 'human'. Starting from her own family's journeys through regions of the world and ascribed racial identities, she develops her argument about how it is possible to recognise the pervasiveness of race thinking without submitting to its power. Drawing on the theoretical work of Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter and others, Erasmus argues for a new way of 'coming to know otherwise', of seeing the boundaries between racial identities as thresholds to be crossed, through politically charged acts of imagination and love.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Appreciations

Abbreviations and acronyms

Foreword: Rehumaning our times, or love in a time of hate

Prelude

Illustrations

1. This Blackness

2. A Conversation

3. The Look

4. The Category

5. The Gene

6. Beginnings

7. Open Closure

Notes

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Aug 2018).

ISBN:

1-77614-184-9