A critical examination of anti-Indian racism in post-apartheid South Africa
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2016
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Nyar, Annsilla
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This dissertation is a critical examination of anti-Indian racism in post-apartheid South Africa. While racism presents an intractable problem for all racial groups in South Africa, this dissertation will show that Indian South Africans are especially framed by a specific racist discourse related to broad perceptions of economic exploitation within the context of redistributive and resource-allocation conflicts, political corruption, insularity and general lack of a socio-cultural ‘fit’ with the rest of South African society. This is not unique to present day South Africa and is (albeit in evolving ways) a long standing phenomenon. Key concerns addressed by the dissertation are: the lack of critical attention to the matter of anti-Indian racism, the historical origins of anti-Indian racism, the characteristics and dynamics of anti-Indian racism and its persistence in post-apartheid South Africa despite an avowed commitment of South Africa’s new post-apartheid dispensation to a non-racial society.
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Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, University
of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities,
Department of Political Studies, 2016
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Nyar, Annsilla (2016) A critical examination of anti-Indian racism in post-apartheid South Africa, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, < http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/21887>