04250nam a22006135i 4500 978-981-97-8529-2 DE-He213 20251030114606.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241206s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819785292 978-981-97-8529-2 10.1007/978-981-97-8529-2 doi JA76 JHB bicssc JP bicssc SOC026000 bisacsh JHB thema JP thema Taylor, Rupert. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 88627 Systemic Racism in South Africa [electronic resource] : Humanity Lost / by Rupert Taylor. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. VI, 315 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Racism Is a System -- 2 Apartheid as Systemic Racism -- 3 The Good White South African -- 4 Enlightened Afrikanerdom -- 5 The Chosen Path -- 6 Truth Omission -- 7 Judicial Criminality -- 8 The Just Judges? -- 9 Locked in Systemic Racism -- 10 Reckoning. This book takes a critical macro-level political sociological perspective to understanding South African politics and society. Applying systemic racism theory to South Africa, the author argues that South African society through its exclusionary social mechanisms has assumed a systemically racist form that deeply compromises questions of truth and justice. Constitutive of, and embedded in, the structure of South African society, racism has a reach and a durability that runs deep through the successive stages of segregationism, apartheid, and liberal democracy. Showing the limits of the rule of law in a racist society, the author offers a theoretically-informed interpretation as to why the national liberation struggle has fallen short of its promise to deliver a “better life for all,” and as to why truth and justice remain so deeply compromised in South Africa today. The arguments advanced are supported by over thirty semi-structured interviews conducted by the author with high-profile South African politicians, jurists, and intellectuals; as well as by using Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearing transcripts – both public and “top-secret.” This thought-provoking book is driven by the imperative to offer a compelling and sustained argument for taking a systemic racism approach to interpreting South Africa for scholars and students of sociology, political science, race and ethnic studies, law, and South African history. Rupert Taylor is a British political sociologist and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. A Research Associate of the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Rupert has served as Editor-in-Chief of Voluntas and Politikon and published in journals such as Telos, Race & Class, The Political Quarterly, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and African Affairs. Political sociology. 57999 Race. 67750 Social justice. 58936 Africa Politics and government. 67669 Africa History. 71617 Political science Philosophy. 57588 Political Sociology. 57999 Race and Ethnicity Studies. 67752 Social Justice. 58936 African Politics. 67671 African History. 71619 Political Philosophy. 66964 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819785285 Printed edition: 9789819785308 Printed edition: 9789819785315 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8529-2 ZDB-2-SLS ZDB-2-SXS 65535 65535