Xenophobia in South Africa A History /

• Main Author: Tafira, Hashi Kenneth (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: African Histories and Modernities
• Subjects: Africa-History.; Social history.; Racism in the social sciences.; Imperialism.; African History.; Social History.; Sociology of Racism.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the aftermath, Hashi Kenneth Tafira went...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Is Xenophobia Racism?
• 3. Inside the Mind of a Xenophobe
• 4. The Interface between Race, Nation, Nationalism, and Ethnicism
• 5. Politics of Difference
• 6. Local Woman and Immigrant Lover
• 7. The Immigrant's Phallus
• 8. Particularisms and Relationships
• 9. Postscript.