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A 14 page research paper that offers a literature review that explores issues associated with the politics of race, class and nationalism in South African during the twentieth century. The writer discusses this within the context of history, both before and after the fall of apartheid. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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English and Indian" (Goldschmidt, 2003, p. 204). Prior to 1994, the majority of South African citizens identified themselves as belonging to one of these groups, as the apartheid social structure
provided a definitive classification system for the South African citizenry as part of its mechanism for maintaining a monopoly on political power (Goldschmidt, 2003). Through the imposition of government
sanctioned identifying labels, this system provided a ready means for establishing identity; however, as South African has moved away from a society "based on pigmentocracies" towards one based on "multiracial
democracy," the question arises as to how this has affected how people define who they are and the effect that the fall of apartheid has had on the way in
which people see themselves and their national identity. This raises the question of what, precisely are the politics of race, class and nationalism in South Africa and how do these
factors compare in the "new" South Africa as compared to the politics that dominated the vast majority of the twentieth century? The following literature review attempts to answer this question,
first by exploring the history of South Africa in regards to these issues and then looking at contemporary perspectives on the post-apartheid South African society. History The politics of
"nationalism and racism have dominated South Africas history" (Foster, 2003, p. 657. The emergence and dominance of white South African society in the twentieth century has generally been considered to
have resulted from a variety of interrelated factors, class, race and economics, which have intertwined in various and sundry ways (Foster, 2003). Within this context, "whiteness" is a term
that plays an integral role. "Whiteness" is a relatively new concept for identification purposes as it has come to have meaning within the framework that is characterized by European imperialism/
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