Hashi Kenneth Tafira Boeken

The book examines the enduring impact of coloniality in South Africa, even after the official end of apartheid in 1994. It delves into the genealogy of Black Nationalist thought and the effects of colonial modernity, highlighting the grim realities of war, murder, rape, and genocide. Tafira addresses various topics, such as youth political movements, the social construction of blackness in Azania, and insights from the Black Liberation Movement, offering a comprehensive analysis of these critical issues.

This book is a vivid history of racism in post-apartheid South Africa, focusing on how colonialism still haunts black intraracial relationships. In 2008, sixty-four people died in a wave of anti-immigrant violence in the Alexandra township of Johannesburg; in the aftermath, Hashi Kenneth Tafira went to Alexandra and undertook an ethnographic study of why this violence occurred. Presented here, his findings reframe xenophobia as a form of black-on-black racism, unraveling the long history of colonial dehumanization and self-abnegation that continues to shape South African black subjectivities. Studying vernacular, popular stereotypes, gender, and sexual politics, Tafira investigates the dynamics of love relationships between black South African women and black immigrant men, and pervasive myths about male sexuality, economic competition, and immigrants. Pioneering and timely, this book presents a cohesive picture of the new face of racism in the twenty-first century.