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9781444338188

Intergroup Relations in Post Apartheid South Africa Change, and Obstacles to Change

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    9781444338188

  • ISBN10:

    1444338188

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-06-29
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

This volume brings together research that has investigated change and obstacles to change in intergroup relations in South Africa. Reflects on theories of intergroup behavior that are current in the international literature. Highlights issues of interest when considering a transformation in which the formerly subordinate group becomes the politically dominant majority.

Author Biography

Gillian Finchilescu is Chair of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.?She obtained her D.Phil. from Oxford University. Her research interest is intergroup relations, with a recent focus on issues around intergroup contact and the reduction on intergroup hostility.

Colin Tredoux is Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa.?He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1996, from UCT.?His interests in social psychology include the micro-ecology of contact, naturalistic study of intergroup contact, and classic contact theory.

Table of Contents

Overview and Introduction
The Changing Landscape of Intergroup Relations in South Africa
Changes in Identities and Attitudes
Emerging Patterns of Social Identification in Post apartheid South Africa
Racial Reconciliation in South Africa: Interracial Contact and Changes over Time
Racial Contact and Change in South Africa
Mediators of Contact
Mediators of the Contact-Prejudice Relation amongst South African Students on Four University Campuses
The Impact of Cross group Friendships in South Africa: Affective Mediators and Multigroup Comparisons
Intergroup Anxiety in Interracial Interaction: The Role of Prejudice and Metastereotypes
Contact in Desegregated Educational Institutions
The Reconstitution of Privilege: Integration in Former White Schools in South Africa
The Spaces between Us: A Spatial Analysis of Informal Segregation at a South African University
Challenges for The Contact Hypothesis
Contact Theory: Too Timid for "Race" and Racism
A Paradox of Integration? Interracial Contact, Prejudice Reduction, and Perceptions of Racial Discrimination
Afterword
Commentary: South African Contributions to the Study of Intergroup Relations
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