Go to AfricaBib home

Go to AfricaBib home AfricaBib Go to database home

bibliographic database
Line
Previous page New search

The free AfricaBib App for Android is available here

Periodical article Periodical article Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue WorldCat catalogue WorldCat
Title:The new black/African racial nationalism in SA: towards a liberal-egalitarian critique
Author:Glaser, DarylISNI
Year:2011
Periodical:Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa (ISSN 0258-7696)
Issue:76
Pages:67-94
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:nationalism
race relations
political ideologies
External link:https://muse.jhu.edu/article/461825
Abstract:The period of the Mbeki presidency (1999-2008) witnessed an upsurge in African or black racial nationalism in South Africa's ruling circles, a racial-nationalist discourse whose effects are still being felt under the presidency of the more nonracial Jacob Zuma. The new nationalism champions policies that benefit black elites, arguably at the expense of the black poor. This paper offers a critique of this new phenomenon from a liberal-egalitarian normative standpoint. Five conceptual premises of the new racial nationalism, the paper argues, lie at the root of what is normatively problematic about it. These are a group-based theory of moral agency, personality and standing; a race-based, unitary and teleological conception of peoplehood; an over-applied microcosmic theory of racial representation; the prioritization of deontological racial justice in the assignment of persons to producer places over consequentialist social-welfare considerations regarding the provision of goods; and a crudely 'postcolonial' theory of knowledge and power. Four negative consequences flow from these conceptions: neglect of interpersonal equality and the poor, gratuitous social division, incipient authoritarianism, and policy irrationalism. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
Views
Cover