04057nam a22005655i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050000900172072001600181072001500197072002300212072001500235072001400250100008400264245009700348250001800445264008200463300003300545336002600578337002600604338003600630347002400666505026100690520190300951650003202854650001702886650002702903650004402930650002802974650004203002650003203044650003903076650002703115650002903142650002803171650003303199710003403232773002603266776003603292776003603328776003603364856004603400912001403446912001403460999001703474978-981-97-8529-2DE-He21320251030114606.0cr nn 008mamaa241206s2024    si |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97898197852929978-981-97-8529-27 a10.1007/978-981-97-8529-22doi 4aJA76 7aJHB2bicssc 7aJP2bicssc 7aSOC0260002bisacsh 7aJHB2thema 7aJP2thema1 aTaylor, Rupert.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98862710aSystemic Racism in South Africah[electronic resource] :bHumanity Lost /cby Rupert Taylor.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aSingapore :bSpringer Nature Singapore :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aVI, 315 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1. 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.  aThis 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. 0aPolitical sociology.957999 0aRace.967750 0aSocial justice.958936 0aAfricaxPolitics and government.967669 0aAfricaxHistory.971617 0aPolitical sciencexPhilosophy.95758814aPolitical Sociology.95799924aRace and Ethnicity Studies.96775224aSocial Justice.95893624aAfrican Politics.96767124aAfrican History.97161924aPolitical Philosophy.9669642 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978981978528508iPrinted edition:z978981978530808iPrinted edition:z978981978531540uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8529-2  aZDB-2-SLS  aZDB-2-SXS  c65535d65535