"Larney" and "rough and tough" schools : the making of white Durban -- Umlazi Township and the gendered "bond of education" -- The routes of schooling desegregation : protest, cooption, and marketised assimilation, 1976-2000 -- From school to work : symbolic power and social networks -- "What can you do for the school?" The racialised market, 2000s- -- New families on the bluff : selling a child in the schooling market -- Beneath the "black tax" in Umlazi : class, family relations and schooling -- Conclusions : hegemony on a school bus.
Summary:
"This book adds to existing research exposing continued inequalities in South Africa's education facilities and exam results. However, it rethinks South Africa's political transition by revealing how the prestige of whiteness, or what it calls "white tone," became reformulated in the everyday workings of a marketised education system. It shows how "white" phenotypic traits retain value in society even if some better-off "black" people can now buy prestigious cultural dispositions"-- Provided by publisher.
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