List members may be interested in the following event:
Book Launch: 'Race for Education. Gender, White Tone, and Schooling in
South Africa'
Organised by the Centre of African Studies and the International African
Institute, SOAS
Thursday 6 June, 6pm, SOAS, University of London
Following the end of apartheid in 1994, the ANC government placed education
at the centre of its plans to build a nonracial and more equitable society.
Yet, by the 2010s a wave of student protests voiced demands for decolonised
and affordable education. By following families and schools in Durban for
nearly a decade, Mark Hunter sheds new light on South Africa's political
transition and the global phenomenon of education marketisation. He rejects
simple descriptions of the country's move from 'race to class apartheid'
and reveals how 'white' phenotypic traits like skin colour retain value in
the schooling system even as the multiracial middle class embraces
prestigious linguistic and embodied practices the book calls 'white tone'.
By illuminating the actions and choices of both white and black parents,
Hunter provides a unique view on race, class and gender in a country
emerging from a notorious system of institutionalised racism.
Author bio:
Mark Hunter is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of
Toronto Scarborough. His first book Love in the Time of AIDS: Inequality,
Gender, and Rights in South Africa won the 2010 Amaury Talbot Prize, and
the 2010 C. Wright Mills Award.
Discussants: Jennifer Robinson (UCL) and Deborah Posel (UCT)
Chair: Harri Englund (University of Cambridge)
All welcome.
The event is followed by drinks reception.
Full details and please register here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-race-for-education-gender-white-tone-and-schooling-in-south-africa-by-mark-hunter-tickets-61092794192
Full details of the book here:
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/history/african-history/race-education-gender-white-tone-and-schooling-south-africa?format=PB
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Stephanie Kitchen
Managing Editor
International African Institute
School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H 0XG
www.internationalafricaninstitute.org
Twitter: @Africa_IAI
Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4435 (o)
+44(0)7966 045144 (m)
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