Do race and ethnicity present a danger to the consolidation of
effective democratic government? Can liberal constitutionalism
provide a stable basis for governance of a polity historically
erected on racial and ethnic division? In this book Courtney Jung
argues that when ethnic and racial identities are politically fluid
and heterogeneous, as she finds they are in South Africa, ethnic
and racial politics will not undermine the peaceful and democratic
potential of the government.
Jung examines three important cases of politicized racial and
ethnic identity in South Africa: Zulu, Afrikaner, and Coloured.
Working from extensive field research and interviews, she develops
a model to explain shifts in the political salience, goals, and
boundaries of these groups between 1980 and 1995. Jung challenges
the common assumption that cultural identities overdetermine
political possibility, pointing out that individual members fail
for the most part to internalize the political agenda of "their
own" ethnic group. Group engagement with the state is also
conditioned by contextual factors, not determined by its
constitution in ethnic or racial terms. South Africa is no more
divided than most other societies, she concludes, and no less
likely to consolidate democracy as a result of its politicized
cleavages of race and ethnicity.
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