UCL African Studies Seminar Series: On the question of non-racialism in South Africa

Join us for the next UCL African Studies Seminar with Deborah Posel (Professor of Sociology, University of Cape Town). 

The principle of 'non-racialism' underpinned the ANC's anti-apartheid struggle, and the transition to a constitutional democracy in South Africa. Indeed the Constitution affirms non-racialism as a foundational value. Yet this is now under attack from student protestors and others who see it as a denial of the abiding realities of race and racial supremacy in the country. This paper revisits the notion of non-racialism and its abiding articulation with a politics of race in South Africa's past and present.

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