Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa

Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 458
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780300128758
ISBN-13 : 0300128754
Rating : 4/5 (754 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa by : Jeremy Seekings

Download or read book Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa written by Jeremy Seekings and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the midtwentieth century to the early twenty-first century. They show that the basis of inequality shifted in the last decades of the twentieth century from race to class. Formal deracialization of public policy did not reduce the actual disadvantages experienced by the poor nor the advantages of the rich. The fundamental continuity in patterns of advantage and disadvantage resulted from underlying continuities in public policy, or what Seekings and Nattrass call the “distributional regime.” The post-apartheid distributional regime continues to divide South Africans into insiders and outsiders. The insiders, now increasingly multiracial, enjoy good access to well-paid, skilled jobs; the outsiders lack skills and employment.

Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa Related Books

Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa
Language: en
Pages: 458
Authors: Jeremy Seekings
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

GET EBOOK

The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In
When the Ground Is Hard
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Malla Nunn
Categories: Young Adult Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-04 - Publisher: Penguin

GET EBOOK

Edgar Award nominee stuns in this heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school where two girls of different castes bond over a shared copy of Jane Eyre.
Whiteness is the New South Africa
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Christopher Bodenheimer Knaus
Categories: Discrimination in education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

GET EBOOK

Based upon three sets of studies in schools in and around Cape Town, Whiteness Is the New South Africa highlights drastic racial disparities, suggesting that ed
Freedom in Our Lifetime
Language: en
Pages: 60
Authors:
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Sorting Things Out
Language: en
Pages: 390
Authors: Geoffrey C. Bowker
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-08-25 - Publisher: MIT Press

GET EBOOK

A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortality table (