Heart of Whiteness: Afrikaners Face Black Rule In the New South Africa Review

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Heart of Whiteness: Afrikaners Face Black Rule In the New South Africa ReviewAs an Afrikaner, I enjoyed this book because the authors allow their Afrikaner informants to tell their own story. The "voice" of the Afrikaner community (or at least, a segment thereof) is clearly heard in this book and is not drowned out by the authors' own narrative. In other words, reading the book, one learns more about the respondents and their everyday lived reality, than about the authors and their subjective perceptions (an approach that should typify any good ethnography). However, I was dismayed by the large number of factual errors, some trivial and some quite substantial. Afrikaans words in the text are often misspelled or used in an incorrect case and/or context. Afrikaner history also becomes rather truncated and overly defined in terms of 20th century events. The authors also exhibit an over-reliance on respondents who are theologists and/or theological academics. The political economy of Afrikaner Nationalism, and by extension Apartheid, does not get the attention it deserves. Apartheid was not primarily a religio-political phenomenon, even though religion was used at the level of discourse to explain, excuse, and justify the political system. More attention should be paid to the role of Afrikaner working class urbanization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
All in all, a worthwhile read for those outside Afrikanerdom wanting to gain a better understanding of some of its internal anxieties.Heart of Whiteness: Afrikaners Face Black Rule In the New South Africa Overview

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