The Impact of White Supremacy on First-Generation Mixed-Race Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
South African white supremacy has been shaped by over 400 years of settler colonialism and white minority apartheid rule to craft a pervasive and entrenched legacy of privilege and oppression in the post-apartheid context. This paper explores the constructions of white supremacy, specifically its ro...
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| description | South African white supremacy has been shaped by over 400 years of settler colonialism and white minority apartheid rule to craft a pervasive and entrenched legacy of privilege and oppression in the post-apartheid context. This paper explores the constructions of white supremacy, specifically its role in shaping the perceptions of first-generation mixed-race identity in South Africa, through semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Through a critical race theory and an intersectional lens, this paper unpacks the personal, political, and social impact of white supremacist structures on the identity construction of first-generation mixed-race people in post-apartheid South Africa; specifically, societal- and self-perceptions of their identity within power structures with which they interact. Moreover, this paper aims to understand how first-generation mixed-race people understand their connections to white privilege. Ultimately this paper argues that although first-generation mixed-race people experience relative privilege, their access to white privilege and acceptance within structures of whiteness is always conditional. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb975b1bf02e4d14b86239384f17d3972024-03-27T13:42:50ZengMDPI AGGenealogy2313-57782024-03-01812810.3390/genealogy8010028The Impact of White Supremacy on First-Generation Mixed-Race Identity in Post-Apartheid South AfricaJody Metcalfe0Doctoral College for Intersectionality Studies, University of Bayreuth, 95445 Bayreuth, GermanySouth African white supremacy has been shaped by over 400 years of settler colonialism and white minority apartheid rule to craft a pervasive and entrenched legacy of privilege and oppression in the post-apartheid context. This paper explores the constructions of white supremacy, specifically its role in shaping the perceptions of first-generation mixed-race identity in South Africa, through semi-structured, in-depth interviews. Through a critical race theory and an intersectional lens, this paper unpacks the personal, political, and social impact of white supremacist structures on the identity construction of first-generation mixed-race people in post-apartheid South Africa; specifically, societal- and self-perceptions of their identity within power structures with which they interact. Moreover, this paper aims to understand how first-generation mixed-race people understand their connections to white privilege. Ultimately this paper argues that although first-generation mixed-race people experience relative privilege, their access to white privilege and acceptance within structures of whiteness is always conditional.https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/8/1/28critical mixed-race studiesintersectionalitywhitenesspost-apartheid South Africaidentitymultiracial identity |
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| title | The Impact of White Supremacy on First-Generation Mixed-Race Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
| title_full | The Impact of White Supremacy on First-Generation Mixed-Race Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
| title_fullStr | The Impact of White Supremacy on First-Generation Mixed-Race Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
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| title_short | The Impact of White Supremacy on First-Generation Mixed-Race Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
| title_sort | impact of white supremacy on first generation mixed race identity in post apartheid south africa |
| topic | critical mixed-race studies intersectionality whiteness post-apartheid South Africa identity multiracial identity |
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