Abstract
Sitting pretty, but simmering with anger
Highlights
Book Title: Sitting Pretty: White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa Book Cover: Author: Christi van der Westhuizen ISBN: 978-1869143763 Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2017, R288* *Book price at time of review
As I read some of the responses to the article, and sat through colloquia and seminars that highlighted – above all else – the inadequacy of our best efforts to deal with matters of race, I wondered where these debates left Sitting pretty – a book that seeks to understand how white Afrikaans women have responded to the challenges of post-apartheid democratisation (Van der Westhuizen 2017:3)
What happens when we generalise along racial lines? Can we find a nuanced language to talk about something as unnuanced as racial thinking? How do we as scholars in the humanities and the social sciences rid ourselves of apartheid’s ingrained classificatory systems when the world around us – the world that we study – still bear traces of that classificatory systems and organises itself around them in disturbing ways?
Summary
Book Title: Sitting Pretty: White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa Book Cover: Author: Christi van der Westhuizen ISBN: 978-1869143763 Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2017, R288* *Book price at time of review. As I read some of the responses to the article, and sat through colloquia and seminars that highlighted – above all else – the inadequacy of our best efforts to deal with matters of race, I wondered where these debates left Sitting pretty – a book that seeks to understand how white Afrikaans women have responded to the challenges of post-apartheid democratisation (Van der Westhuizen 2017:3).
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