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Race Is Nowhere and Race Is Everywhere: Narratives from Black and White South African University Students in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Walker, Melanie – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2005
This paper examines the life history narratives of a group of 12 black and white male and female undergraduate students at a historically white Afrikaans medium university, now undergoing its own transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. Conceptualizations of identity and discourse across four elements of context, setting, situated activity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Biographies, Organizational Change
Rainbow Nation or New Racism? Theorizing Race and Identity Formation in South African Higher Education
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Walker, Melanie – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2005
This paper explores both the personal narratives of a group of black and white undergraduate students and the institutional discourse at one historically white and Afrikaans medium university now undergoing its own transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. It considers how students talk about their actual experiences and the micro-realties of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Personal Narratives