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“The only one who was thought to know the pulse of the people”: Black women’s politics in the era of post-racial discourse
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | Theorizing black women’s high level of participation in contemporary South African protests for public water, electricity, and housing requires attention to the long history of women’s rural and urban revolts against apartheid passes and Section Ten laws, which proscribed black women’s mobility and delegitimized their access to public services. Examining the role of ibandlas (women’s assemblies/prayer unions/mothers unions) in three literary works: Lauretta Ncgobo’s And They Didn’t Die, Sindiwe Magona’s For My Children’s Children, and Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela, I argue that black women mobilize against enduring conditions of particular vulnerability, as post-racial discourse suppresses the social relations of blackness in the face of the “after-life of apartheid.” Indeed, post-racial discourse misreads the “pulse of the people.” |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0921374013510802?download=true |
| Starting Page | 73 |
| Ending Page | 90 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| ISSN | 09213740 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 26 |
| Journal | Cultural Dynamics (CDY) |
| e-ISSN | 14617048 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0921374013510802 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2014-03-24 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2013 |
| Subject Keyword | black women and anti-privatization protest Black feminist politics South Africa post-apartheid protest women’s assemblies ibandlas post-racial discourse |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Arts and Humanities Anthropology Cultural Studies |
