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Black in white: The private and public lives of black alums in Cape Town private schools
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/126066 Black in white: The private and public lives of black alums in Cape Town private schools Mujulizi, Mukisa Dubbeld, Bernard Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology. Feminism and education Private schools -- Multicultural education -- South Africa -- Cape Town Private schools -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Alumni and alumnae Race discrimination -- Private schools -- South Africa -- Cape Town Post-apartheid era -- South Africa Homosexuality and education Homophobia in schools Gender identity in education Private schools -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- School environment -- Social aspects Race relations in school management UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2022. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis explores the private and public lives of Black alums in Cape Town private schools. The thesis is interested in understanding whether elite schools are truly becoming more inclusive in 21ˢᵗ century South Africa, or if their attempt to reproduce elite status has meant the transmission of “Whiteness” and the alienation of Black students. I begin by exploring the history of education in South Africa and how elite schooling is rooted to this history in such a way that affects 21ˢᵗ century Black students who attend these schools. I show how Whiteness emerges in this history of elite schooling, and continues to be experienced in contemporary post-apartheid South Africa, even if its meaning may not be fixed or constant. Whiteness takes the form it does because private schools, like the ones explored in this thesis, seek to emulate elite schools that are tied to the British colony. In this pursuit of an ’eliteness’ a set of tones and codes emerge that schools nurture in their students, one that may produce alienation for Black students inside and outside of this space. I therefore look at the ways in which Black students have existed in these spaces that can often be quite hostile to their existence. I further theorise the class experience of students at these schools and try to establish how race and class might intersect at elite schools. I further show that queer students also face similar rigid structures within these schools that force them to interrogate their identities in such a way that cisgendered, heterosexual students do not. This thesis relied on a qualitative method of analysis, drawing on 10 interviews with Black alums of two private schools. I supplemented these data with some of my own experiences of one of the two private schools. This allowed me to recognise the relations and intersections between race, class, gender, and sexuality in these spaces which became the basis for my chapters. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis verken die private en publieke lewens van Swart alums in privaat skole in Kaapstad. Hierdie tesis is geintereseerd daarin om te verstaan of elite skole werklik meer inklusief raak in die 21ste eeu in Suid-Afrika, en of hulle poging om elite status te reproduseer eerder die transmissie van “Witheid” en die vervreemding van Swart studente beteken. Ek begin deur die geskiedenis van onderwys in Suid-Afrika te verken en oorweeg hoe elite skoolopleiding gewortel is in hierdie geskiedenis op so ’n wyse dat Swart studente, wat hierdie skole bywoon in die 21ste eeu, daardeur geaffekteer word. Ek wys hoe Witheid na vore kom in hierdie geskiedenis van elite skoolopleiding, en hoe dit steeds ervaar word in kontemporere post-Apartheid Suid-Afrika, selfs wanneer die betekenis van Witheid nie altyd beslis of konstand is nie. Witheid neem die form aan wat dit doen omdat privaat skole, soos die skole wat in hierdie tesis verken word, poog om elite skole wat aan die Britse kolonie gekoppel is, na te volg. In hierdie strewing na ’n ‘elitheid’ kom ’n stel tone en kodes na vore wat skole in hulle studente koester, een wat binne en buite hierdie spasie vervreemding vir Swart studente mag veroorsaak. Ek kyk dus na maniere waarin Swart studente bestaan in hierdie spasies wat dikwels nogal vyandiggesind teenoor hulle bestaan kan wees. Ek teoretiseer verder die klas ervaring van studente in hierdie skole, en probeer om vas te stel hoe ras en klas by verskillende interseksies met mekaar mag kruis by elite skole. Ek wys verder dat queer studente ook gekonfronteer word met soortgelyke rigiede strukture in hierdie skole, wat hulle forseer om hulle identiteite te ondersoek op ’n wyse wat cis-geslag, heteroseksuele studente nie doen nie. ’n Kwalitatiewe metode van analise is toegepas op 10 onderhoude met Swart alums van twee privaat skole. Dit het my in staat gestel om die verhoudings en interseksies tussen ras, klas, geslag, en seksualiteit in hierdie spasies te herken, wat die fondasies vir my hoofstukke geword het. Masters 2022-11-23T10:56:08Z 2023-01-16T12:48:19Z 2022-11-23T10:56:08Z 2023-01-16T12:48:19Z 2022-12 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/126066 en_ZA Stellenbosch University v, 123 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Feminism and education Private schools -- Multicultural education -- South Africa -- Cape Town Private schools -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Alumni and alumnae Race discrimination -- Private schools -- South Africa -- Cape Town Post-apartheid era -- South Africa Homosexuality and education Homophobia in schools Gender identity in education Private schools -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- School environment -- Social aspects Race relations in school management UCTD Mujulizi, Mukisa Black in white: The private and public lives of black alums in Cape Town private schools |
| title | Black in white: The private and public lives of black alums in Cape Town private schools |
| title_full | Black in white: The private and public lives of black alums in Cape Town private schools |
| title_fullStr | Black in white: The private and public lives of black alums in Cape Town private schools |
| title_full_unstemmed | Black in white: The private and public lives of black alums in Cape Town private schools |
| title_short | Black in white: The private and public lives of black alums in Cape Town private schools |
| title_sort | black in white the private and public lives of black alums in cape town private schools |
| topic | Feminism and education Private schools -- Multicultural education -- South Africa -- Cape Town Private schools -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- Alumni and alumnae Race discrimination -- Private schools -- South Africa -- Cape Town Post-apartheid era -- South Africa Homosexuality and education Homophobia in schools Gender identity in education Private schools -- South Africa -- Cape Town -- School environment -- Social aspects Race relations in school management UCTD |
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