Romanticising the “<i>Boer”</i>: Narratives of White Victimhood in South African Popular Culture

Knoetze, Hannelie Marx

doi:10.1080/02564718.2020.1822601

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“…In the South African context, political narratives are often racialized and shared in ways that arouse, rather than inform, their audience [ 49 , 50 ], potentially increasing intergroup threat [ 36 , 51 , 52 ] and reinforcing racialized group boundaries. Two salient examples include the sensationalistic manner in which mainstream and social media regularly report on heated political debates surrounding Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) and land expropriation without compensation.…”

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“…Both political policies thus aim to redress past imbalances, yet are often depicted in inflammatory ways that incite racial polarization and intergroup threat (e.g., “If you see a beautiful piece of land, take it–Malema”, News24, 28-02-2017, [ 56 ], see also [ 57 , 58 ]). Moreover, political parties tend to weaponize these policies to sow racial division and gain political traction [ 49 , 50 ].…”

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(Not) part of the team: Racial empathy bias in a South African minimal group study

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Fourie

2023

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Minimal Group Paradigm (MGP) research suggests that recategorization with an arbitrarily defined group may be sufficient to override empathy biases among salient social categories like race. However, most studies utilizing MGPs do not consider sufficiently the socio-historical contexts of social groups. Here we investigated whether the recategorization of White participants into arbitrarily defined mixed-race teams using a non-competitive MGP would ameliorate racial empathy biases towards ingroup team members in the South African context. Sixty participants rated their empathic and counter-empathic (Schadenfreude, Glückschmerz) responses to ingroup and outgroup team members in physically painful, emotionally distressing, and positive situations. As anticipated, results indicated significant ingroup team biases in empathic and counter-empathic responses. However, mixed-race minimal teams were unable to override ingroup racial empathy biases, which persisted across events. Interestingly, a manipulation highlighting purported political ideological differences between White and Black African team members did not exacerbate racial empathy bias, suggesting that such perceptions were already salient. Across conditions, an internal motivation to respond without prejudice was most strongly associated with empathy for Black African target individuals, regardless of their team status. Together, these results suggest that racial identity continues to provide a salient motivational guide in addition to more arbitrary group memberships, even at an explicit level, for empathic responding in contexts characterized by historical power asymmetry. These data further problematize the continued official use of race-based categories in such contexts.

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(Not) part of the team: Racial empathy bias in a South African minimal group study

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Fourie

2023

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Warren

2021

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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produced volumes of selected poems. My Mother's Laughter: Selected Poems edited by Ivan Vladislavic and Robert Berold is a posthumous collection of Chris van Wyk's poems, drawing on his 1979 collection It Is Time to Go Home as well as poems written in the subsequent years. There have been several posthumous collections of iconic Afrikaans poet Ingrid Jonker with the latest, Waterfall of Moss and Sun, translated and edited by her daughter Simone Jonker. Malibongwe: Poems from the Struggle by ANC Women edited by Sono Molefe (a pseudonym for Lindiwe Mabuza) was first published in Europe in 1981 but banned in South Africa and long out of print. It has now been reissued with a new preface by Uhuru Phalafala and an introduction by Makhosazana Xaba, giving a broader audience access to the poems and providing insight into writing by women activists. The Only Magic We Know: Selected Modjaji Poems 2004 to 2020 edited by Marike Beyers brings together selected poems from each of the poets published by Modjaji Press over the past 16 years. An impressive collection in its own right, it also serves as a testimony to Modjaji's role in bringing women's voices to the fore. The book contains close to 40 poets, with several poems by each author, from Ingrid Anderson and Margaret Clough to Makhosazana Xaba and Fiona Zerbst.Junkets Publisher received the Special Award for Innovation in Theatre at the 55th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards. A small independent publisher, they have published 62 individual playscripts and ten anthologies of plays. In the drama this year, they published all but two, bringing into print plays by

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Apartheid’s Patriarchies in Decline: White Masculinities in Damon Galgut’s The Promise

Carolin

2023

JLS

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The initial popular reception of Damon Galgut’s The Promise (2021) has overlooked issues of gender in the text, favouring instead the more narrow allegorical readings of race. In response to this, this article emphasises the novel’s engagement with the distinctly gendered nature of the transition from apartheid, focusing on the representation of white masculinities in the text. This article raises concerns about how these masculinities are depicted. Through close engagement with the text’s systematic introduction and disavowal of the constitutive forces of apartheid’s patriarchies—including fatherhood, Christianity, and the security state—this article argues that the novel’s engagement with white masculinities is one of negation; it offers a narrative mode in which white masculinities are rendered sterile, rewritten in the well-worn register of an anti-apartheid moral certitude that depends on tired tropes. While the novel attempts an important decentring of white masculinities, its outlook is ultimately bleak as white masculinities are shown to lack depth, resulting in their power in the present being curiously absented in an act of textual erasure.

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Romanticising the “Boer”: Narratives of White Victimhood in South African Popular Culture

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(Not) part of the team: Racial empathy bias in a South African minimal group study

(Not) part of the team: Racial empathy bias in a South African minimal group study

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Apartheid’s Patriarchies in Decline: White Masculinities in Damon Galgut’s The Promise

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