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Archiving White Lives, Historicising Whiteness

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This chapter focuses on the historical constitution, habitation and performance of whiteness in South Africa, but aims to complicate white identification practices, as well as the privileges and dominance of whiteness, by means of an archive and sensitivity to dynamics broader than the economic.

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  1. Kopano Ratele
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  2. Leswin Laubscher
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    Garth Stevens

  2. University of Pretoria, South Africa

    Norman Duncan

  3. Birkbeck, University of London, UK

    Derek Hook

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Ratele, K., Laubscher, L. (2013). Archiving White Lives, Historicising Whiteness. In: Stevens, G., Duncan, N., Hook, D. (eds) Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive. Studies in the Psychosocial. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263902_6

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