Browsing Faculty of Arts by Subject "Race"
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A phenomenological discourse analysis of harassed female 'skinscapes' in select public spaces in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)Street harassment refers to the unsolicited verbal remarks and nonverbal gestures that women are subjected to by men when moving through (public) spaces. The dominant discourse sees this phenomenon as firstly a gendered ... -
Being and neoliberalism: A conceptual history of the subject
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The idea of neoliberalism, as both a guiding principle for economic policy decisions and a governing rationality, is a pertinent issue of our time. The concept itself is often used to describe the contemporary mode of ... -
Beyond difference: A textual and interactional analysis of Afrikaner’s language use and identity in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)In a post-national South Africa, spaces are transforming to accommodate multilingualism and address structures of sociolinguistic isolationism and exclusion. In such a transformative society embracing multilingualism is ... -
Blood, race and the construction of 'the coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)In this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds', in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the historical ... -
Blood, race and the construction of 'the Coloured' in Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's stepchildren
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)In this paper I attempt to look critically at the literary construction of one particular 'race', namely the 'Coloureds'. In Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren. To this end, the paper draws on the hlstorlcal ... -
Colonisers to Colonialists: European Jews and the workings of race as a political identity in the settler colony of South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)This thesis explores the shifting racial identification and politics of the emerging Jewish community in Southern Africa between the Anglo-Boer War in 1902 and the Union of South Africa in 1910. Through an investigation ... -
An encounter with the structural and spiritual violence of coloniality: Intersectional understanding of black students’ experiences of exclusion in higher education
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Since the fall of Apartheid, the new mandate of the democratic South African government has been to provide equal quality education for all and to desegregate the education system. However, the national government’s ... -
God’s Chosen People? A critical investigation of discourses in North American Black and Pan-African Theologies
(University of Western Cape, 2021)In Black and African theology, especially in the North American and African contexts, there is consensus that claims of people of European descent being regarded as God’s chosen people, are heretical and serve to legitimise ... -
n Interseksionele lees van Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadtrilogie (An intersectional reading of Bettina Wyngaard’s crime-fiction trilogy)
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)Bettina Wyngaard se misdaadfiksie-trilogie, bestaande uit die romans Vuilspel (2013), Slaafs (2016) en Jagter (2019) het ’n vernuwende uitwerking in die Afrikaanse literatuur gehad. Dit kan hoofsaaklik teruggevoer word na ... -
Representations of gender, race and sexuality in selected English-medium South African magazines, 2003-2005
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)In this thesis, I explore representations of gender, race and sexuality in a select group of South African magazines - Men's Health, FHM, Blink, True Love, Femina and Fair Lady - between 2003 and 2005. From a ... -
The social semiotics of hair: Re-constructing cape coloured South African female identities- the transition
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Cape Coloured women have been misrepresented and misunderstood for generations as a result of apartheid and the deeply rooted ideologies at play during that time. The Coloured body was subjected to the colonial ideals of ... -
A sociolinguistic and multisemiotic analysis of mobility and identities in Hangberg, Hout bay
(University of Western Cape, 2021)The thesis is titled a Sociolinguistic and Multisemiotic Analysis of Mobility and Identities in Hangberg, Hout Bay. The guiding idea of this research project is to explore the contesting social and semiotic processes of ... -
Talk and play as interactions among bilingual children in Beacon Valley, Mitchell’s Plain
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)This study investigates talk and play as interactions in a “small context” among so-called coloured bilingual children and their interactions amongst themselves in the community of Beacon Valley (Mitchell’s Plain). One of ...