Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part one: Thinking about race and our racial legacy -- Part two: Prologue -- Fair discrimination -- What counts when race is at work -- Classification without a law -- Part three: The imagined enemy that serves a purpose -- Now that there are no barbarians? -- Notes -- Index.
Summary:
"Twenty years after the end of apartheid, race still continues to play a role in South African society. Ironically, in a society that is constitutionally committed to non-racialism, race thinking and race classification have been carried forward unthinkingly from our past. Not only does the rationale for such continuation not address the real concerns of our society but the system of classifying carries inevitable seeds of conflict within itself. What is more, the classification of fellow human beings into races remains a crime against humanity, no matter what justification is offered. In this powerfully argued book, Gerhard Maré takes up the challenge to imagine a world beyond the boundaries created by race." -- Back cover.
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