‘Strangers in their own country’: interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities
In South Africa, xenophobia is most used and understood in relation to people from different nationalities, cultures or languages other than South African. Xenophobia is often interpreted as South Africans exhibiting prejudice or discrimination against people of other nationalities. This article se...
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In South Africa, xenophobia is most used and understood in relation to people from different nationalities, cultures or languages other than South African. Xenophobia is often interpreted as South Africans exhibiting prejudice or discrimination against people of other nationalities. This article seeks to reconstruct this “externality” notion, by arguing that xenophobic attitudes can also be directed internally. Du Pre (1992) in Strangers in their Own Country provided a political history of the coloured people of South Africa. A dominant feature of his analysis is the stigmatisation and marginalisation of coloured people throughout their history. This article posits that the stigmatisation and marginalisation of vulnerable coloured communities continue, and should be regarded as xenophobia. With reference to gang subcultures, the article shows how this xenophobia manifests in vulnerable gang-affected coloured communities, not only from the outside, but even within coloured communities themselves.
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| spelling | doaj.art-36149aa07bb848e390c95cc0ecb54fae2024-03-18T11:04:14ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792022-11-0154210.18820/24150479/aa54i2/9‘Strangers in their own country’: interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities Theodore Petrus 0Chijioke Uwah1University of the Free StateUniversity of Fort Hare In South Africa, xenophobia is most used and understood in relation to people from different nationalities, cultures or languages other than South African. Xenophobia is often interpreted as South Africans exhibiting prejudice or discrimination against people of other nationalities. This article seeks to reconstruct this “externality” notion, by arguing that xenophobic attitudes can also be directed internally. Du Pre (1992) in Strangers in their Own Country provided a political history of the coloured people of South Africa. A dominant feature of his analysis is the stigmatisation and marginalisation of coloured people throughout their history. This article posits that the stigmatisation and marginalisation of vulnerable coloured communities continue, and should be regarded as xenophobia. With reference to gang subcultures, the article shows how this xenophobia manifests in vulnerable gang-affected coloured communities, not only from the outside, but even within coloured communities themselves. http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/5516coloured identitiesgang subculturesxenophobic symbologyvulnerable communities |
| spellingShingle | Theodore Petrus Chijioke Uwah ‘Strangers in their own country’: interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities Acta Academica coloured identities gang subcultures xenophobic symbology vulnerable communities |
| title | ‘Strangers in their own country’: interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities |
| title_full | ‘Strangers in their own country’: interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities |
| title_fullStr | ‘Strangers in their own country’: interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘Strangers in their own country’: interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities |
| title_short | ‘Strangers in their own country’: interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities |
| title_sort | strangers in their own country interpreting xenophobic symbology and gang subcultures in vulnerable coloured communities |
| topic | coloured identities gang subcultures xenophobic symbology vulnerable communities |
| url | http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/5516 |
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