Coloured Ethnicity and Identity: A Case Study in the former coloured areas in the Western Cape/South Africa (Demokratie und Entwicklung)

Pickel, Birgit

ISBN 10: 3825834182 / ISBN 13: 9783825834180

Published by Lit Verlag, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coloured Ethnicity and Identity: A Case Study in the former coloured areas in the Western Cape/South Africa (Demokratie und Entwicklung)
• Publisher: Lit Verlag
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3825834182
• ISBN 13: 9783825834180
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

" Democratization processes create opportunities for some, but cause economic and psychological hardship - whether perceived or real - for others. For the latter, transformation situations may strengthen a sense of group belonging, may foster the emergence of a new group identity. After 1990, some media and scholars observed a new ethnic assertiveness among persons classified as ""coloured"" in apartheid South Africa. As a majority in the Western Cape, yet a minority on the national level, they expressed fear of being discriminated against under black majority rule: ""In the past we were not white enough, today we are not black enough."" In this statement resonates a sense of exclusion from the democratic process. By evaluating a quantitative survey, this book analyses how a minority perceives the South African transformation process. The author examines attitudes towards the old regime, towards new government policies and intergroup relations as well as their impact on the self-perception and the political behaviour of coloured people in South Africa. "