Race for Education: Gender, White Tone, and Schooling in South Africa: 60 (The International African Library)
Cambridge University Press, 1/24/2019
EAN 9781108480529, ISBN10: 1108480527
Hardcover, 320 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
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.
1. Introduction
Part I. Racial Modernism, 1950s and '60s
2. 'Larney' and 'rough and tough' schools
the making of White Durban
3. Umlazi township and the gendered 'bond of education'
Part II. Marketised Assimilation, late 1970s–1990s
4. The routes of schooling desegregation
protest, cooption, and marketised assimilation, 1976–2000
Part III. Schooling and Work after Apartheid
5. From school to work
symbolic power and social networks
Part IV. Racialised Market, 2000s–
6. 'What can you do for the school?' The racialised market, 2000s–
7. New families on the bluff
selling a child in the schooling market
8. Beneath the 'black tax' in Umlazi
class, family relations and schooling
9. Conclusions
hegemony on a school bus.