Being human is to recognise the overpowering similarities between humans that so outweigh the differences as to render them impotent. This is how race’s canvas will be destroyed, write Njabulo Ndebele, Crain Soudien, Gerhard Maré and Nina Jablonski
In our deeply racialised society transitioning from ingrained habits is slowly evolving in the quest for nonracial forms of social cohesion, write Njabulo Ndebele, Crain Soudien,Gerhard Maré and Nina Jablonski
The broad aim of what we called the Effects of Race project was to understand better the effects that race and racism in the past 500 years of world history have had on our capacity to be full human beings.It also enabled us to bring on board four groups of scholars who were working on the related issues of how the ideas of race were developed and how they were learnt and unlearnt in the environments of the school and the university within the broader society.
In the process of interrogating the dehumanising effects of race and the pervasive toxin of racism, we worked to retain our own essential humanness. Race, as a human production, works differently according to where it is marshalled. It is the very adaptability and slipperiness of race that has given it much of its power.
Race means one thing in South Africa and another in Australia. People classify one another differently in different places and at different times.Race, as a human production, works differently according to where it is marshalled. It is the very adaptability and slipperiness of race that has given it much of its power.
Understanding the ways in which race seduces us today, both in defence of it and sometimes in ways it is attacked, provides clues for its defeat in future. Such coincidence prompts an imperative to distil from the research whatever has implications for significant policymaking and systemic transformation.
The Constitution is a solemn public covenant that was designed to enable accountable transformative changes to the country’s entire public system.Each represents a site of accountability. Breathing life into, and cutting across them, is the constitutional democracy’s public education system.These undertakings pertain to replacing histories of racialised thinking and living with new forms of community.
We recognised in our discussions that many social experiments to create an alternative community are transitory movements which come and go.
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