Desire, Fear and Entitlement: Sexualising Race and Racialising Sexuality in (Re)membering Apartheid

  • Ratele K
  • Shefer T
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(from the chapter) In this chapter, reiterating the arguments of others in this volume (e.g. Hook; Stevens, Duncan & Sonn) about the (im)possibilities of the Apartheid Archive (Memory) Project, we argue that until the complex intersections of sexuality and racism are surfaced, such 'othering' processes will continue to sustain and reproduce racist and sexist practices. We analyse the racialised sexuality and sexualised racism evident at multiple levels in the narratives of those who remember living under apartheid. While we are interested in deconstructing such narratives at the level of the conscious drama of apartheid, we also attempt here, following Fanon (1967), to read for the understanding of the destabilisation of agency, for the way in which the unconscious interruptions of such agency is always present in the text of the narrators. Constantly aware of the forces of history, we argue for the importance of the unconscious, of fantasy and of projection in the reproduction of racialised sexism and flag the necessity of such understandings in our attempts to challenge racism and its sexualised representations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)

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Ratele, K., & Shefer, T. (2013). Desire, Fear and Entitlement: Sexualising Race and Racialising Sexuality in (Re)membering Apartheid. In Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive (pp. 188–207). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137263902_10

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