Kathryn Pillay
Biographic Data
| ID | 817642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Pillay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Pillay |
| SIGNATURE | PILLAY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5977-2764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance
“Swimming upstream”
This research aims to examine what motivates “white” people working to bring more racial justice to South Africa through education to become involved in this work. Using theories of narrative identity and social action, as well as drawing on previous studies of white identity in South Africa and the USA, this qualitative study explores the narratives of white racial justice activists from a South African perspective. The analysis revealed three l…
Relating Worlds of Racism
Relating Worlds of Racism
This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation and limited full citizenship for individuals who are…
Perpetual foreigners
This article examines the ways in which identity in South Africa, between 1948 and 1994, was inextricably connected to the apartheid regime’s programmes of divide and rule which furthered and entrenched the already existing racial divisions in the country. Differences between people were iterated and strengthened through political and social discourse, and any commonalities between people across ‘racial’ boundaries were disregarded. In so doing t…
The Coolies Here
The aim of this article is to reveal how a category of people that did not exist before in South Africa was created when the first group of indentured Indians arrived on the shores of Natal. In so doing, it examines how significant social and political role players contributed to the shaping of an Indian identity and in turn the perceptions of Indians in South Africa. Through data obtained primarily from The Mercury from the period 1860–1910, thi…
South African Families of Indian Descent
This article examines how notions of 'race' are constructed and transmitted across generations within South African families of Indian descent. The qualitative data analysed and presented in this paper was collected by means of oral histories and semi-structured interviews with five South African families of Indian descent, and has been drawn from a larger data set that was gathered for my doctoral research. I argue in this paper that the continu…
South African Families of Indian Descent
This article examines how notions of 'race' are constructed and transmitted across generations within South African families of Indian descent. The qualitative data analysed and presented in this paper was collected by means of oral histories and semi-structured interviews with five South African families of Indian descent, and has been drawn from a larger data set that was gathered for my doctoral research. I argue in this paper that the continu…
South African Families of Indian Descent
This article examines how notions of 'race' are constructed and transmitted across generations within South African families of Indian descent. The qualitative data analysed and presented in this paper was collected by means of oral histories and semi-structured interviews with five South African families of Indian descent, and has been drawn from a larger data set that was gathered for my doctoral research. I argue in this paper that the continu…
Perpetual foreigners
This article examines the ways in which identity in South Africa, between 1948 and 1994, was inextricably connected to the apartheid regime’s programmes of divide and rule which furthered and entrenched the already existing racial divisions in the country. Differences between people were iterated and strengthened through political and social discourse, and any commonalities between people across ‘racial’ boundaries were disregarded. In so doing t…
The Coolies Here
The aim of this article is to reveal how a category of people that did not exist before in South Africa was created when the first group of indentured Indians arrived on the shores of Natal. In so doing, it examines how significant social and political role players contributed to the shaping of an Indian identity and in turn the perceptions of Indians in South Africa. Through data obtained primarily from The Mercury from the period 1860–1910, thi…
Relating Worlds of Racism
This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation and limited full citizenship for individuals who are…
Relating Worlds of Racism
“Swimming upstream”
This research aims to examine what motivates “white” people working to bring more racial justice to South Africa through education to become involved in this work. Using theories of narrative identity and social action, as well as drawing on previous studies of white identity in South Africa and the USA, this qualitative study explores the narratives of white racial justice activists from a South African perspective. The analysis revealed three l…
The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance
Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Racism (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works)