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Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial TimesInstitutional Racism and the University in Africa: A Focus on South Africa

Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial Times: Institutional Racism and the University in... [Institutional racism within the university in Africa has been an important question in contemporary South Africa. Building on the decolonial challenges to Eurocentric university education in the aftermath of independence movements across the continent, this chapter focuses on the post-1994 South African case. We highlight the challenges of institutional racism in historically white universities including how stigmatising representations of blackness cut across systemic, cultural, and interpersonal domains leading to the current crisis in South African higher education. A case is made for a Pan-African approach to the contestation of institutional racism through an understanding of the collective experience of blackness and a consciousness of the impact of racism in contemporary historically white spaces.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Pan-Africanism and Psychology in Decolonial TimesInstitutional Racism and the University in Africa: A Focus on South Africa

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Springer International Publishing
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978-3-030-89350-7
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103 –122
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10.1007/978-3-030-89351-4_5
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Abstract

[Institutional racism within the university in Africa has been an important question in contemporary South Africa. Building on the decolonial challenges to Eurocentric university education in the aftermath of independence movements across the continent, this chapter focuses on the post-1994 South African case. We highlight the challenges of institutional racism in historically white universities including how stigmatising representations of blackness cut across systemic, cultural, and interpersonal domains leading to the current crisis in South African higher education. A case is made for a Pan-African approach to the contestation of institutional racism through an understanding of the collective experience of blackness and a consciousness of the impact of racism in contemporary historically white spaces.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

Keywords: Institutional Racism; Higher education; Blackness; Transformation; South Africa

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