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A wide range of literature across disciplines has explored the complex intersections of ‘race’, gender, class and other forms of difference and power inequality that were rooted in colonisation and formed the cornerstones of apartheid. This chapter draws on a group of the narratives that have been generated by the Apartheid Archive Project (www.apartheidarchive.org) to explore some of the multiple and complex ways in which normative gender roles, gender power relations and sexualities intersect with racialised discourse and racist practices in home, work and public spaces as told by participants.
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Shefer, T. (2013). Intersections of ‘Race’, Sex and Gender in Narratives on Apartheid. 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_9
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