Race Otherwise - Forging A New Humanism For South Africa (Paperback)

How is ‘race’ determined? Is it your DNA? The community that you were raised in? The way others see you or the way you see yourself? In Race Otherwise: Forging A New Humanism For South Africa, Zimitri Erasmus questions the notion that one can know ‘race’ with one’s eyes, or through racial categories and or genetic ancestry tests. She moves between the intimate probing of racial identities as we experience them individually, and analysis of the global historical forces that have created these identities and woven them into our thinking about what it means to be ‘human’.

Starting from her own family’s journeys through regions of the world and ascribed racial identities, she develops her argument about how it is possible to recognise the pervasiveness of race thinking without submitting to its power. Drawing on the theoretical work of Frantz Fanon, Sylvia Wynter and others, Erasmus argues for a new way of ‘coming to know otherwise’, of seeing the boundaries between racial identities as thresholds to be crossed, through politically charged acts of imagination and love.

General

Imprint:	Wits University Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	September 2017
Authors:	Zimitri Erasmus
Dimensions:	229 x 151 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	195
ISBN-13:	978-1-77614-058-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General Books > Local Author Showcase > Lifestyle
LSN:	1-77614-058-3
Barcode:	9781776140589

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Tue, 15 Dec 2020 | Review by: Sibonelo D.

This text really does help us to move beyond the dead-end of race in this country...

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