How do younger generations of white Afrikaans-speaking South Africans become antiracist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3024972 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judy-Marié Van Noordwyk (Nelson Mandela University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1-18 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Identities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13504630.2025.2513288 |
| OpenAlex | W4411128540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 38 |
Many young white Afrikaans speakers in South Africa are raised in predominantly white enclaves shaped by deep socio-economic inequality and inherited apartheid-era wealth. While many continue to avoid engaging with the harms of racism, some actively reflect on their white privilege and adopt antiracism as a form of accountability. This study explores why, drawing on in-depth online interviews with 15 white Afrikaans speakers (aged 21–47) who self-identify as antiracist. Grounded in Critical Race Theory (CRT), Critical Whiteness Studies (CWS), and post-structural theory, this study examines how participants negotiate Afrikaner identity in a post-apartheid context as they adopt an antiracist stance. These theoretical frameworks enable a nuanced reading of race, power, identity, and resistance in the lived experiences of younger white Afrikaans speakers. Transcripts were translated, coded, and thematically analysed, revealing key influences such as early socialisation by open-minded parents, experiences of ‘othering’, identity shame linked to Afrikaner stigma, exposure to whiteness's internal hierarchies, politicised environments, critical theory in higher education, and meaningful interactions with racialised others. These influences prompted identity work, leading to a critical understanding of whiteness, race, and personal reflection on their own positioning as white people in South Africa
Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics · Genetics
The rise of Afrikanerdom
History, Trauma and Shame
Knowledge in the Blood
Unraveling Whiteness
The Sage Handbook of Action Research
Shame, Love, and Morality
Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness
Michel Foucault
Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
When the Social Self Is Threatened
The ignorance contract
On White Shame and Vulnerability
Collective regret versus collective guilt
Contact Theory
National melancholia and Afrikaner self-parody in post-apartheid South Africa
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Critical race theory
The Positive Side of Negative Emotion
Ideology Justifies Morality
Guilty by association
Emotions and Teacher Identity
Rehabilitating a whiteness disgraced
Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities
How do younger generations of white Afrikaans-speaking South Africans become antiracist
Can We Unlearn Racism? What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness
Shame and the Social Bond
The future of whiteness
Make Afrikaners great again! National populism, democracy and the new white minority politics in post-apartheid South Africa
Introduction
Beyond 'identity
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |