scholarly journals The evolving role of business in contributing to social justice in South Africa in terms of legislative measures

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karunanidhi Reddy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black People ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Legislative Measures

Apartheid in South Africa has burdened the nation with high levels of poverty, illiteracy and other forms of social and economic inequality. The resultant challenges included discrimination on grounds of race and gender, which prevented much of the population from fair opportunities for business ownership and management, and securing senior jobs, as well as obtaining access to goods and services. Many businesses were closed to Black people and separate and inferior facilities were provided for them. Further, workplace discrimination was supported by the law. This article uses a descriptive approach to reveal, particularly in terms of the legislative measures introduced, the social responsibility of business in a transforming society, more especially the transformation of the historically disadvantaged communities.

scholarly journals A LITERATURA COMO MECANISMO DE LUTA PELO RECONHECIMENTO SOCIAL DE MULHERES NEGRAS NA OBRA UM DEFEITO DE COR

Afro-Ásia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Da Trindades Prestes ◽  
Emília Maria Da Trindade Prestes
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black People ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
De Se ◽  
Women Literature ◽  
And Gender

<p class="abstract">O texto descreve e analisa a obra <em>Um defeito de cor </em>(2006), da brasileira Ana Maria Gonçalves, considerado um dos livros mais importantes da literatura do século XXI. A ideia é demonstrar, por meio das memórias de Kahinde/Luísa, uma mulher negra, ex-escrava, cega e à beira da morte, como a atual literatura produzida por escritoras afrodescendentes, ao plasmar em suas obras um modelo original de raça e de gênero, permite explorar a história sob um ângulo diferente daquele usualmente adotado pela literatura tradicional, possibilitando novas representações valorativas e a superação de estereótipos preconceituosos e excludentes relacionados com raça e gênero. A obra em análise, por transcender as narrativas tradicionais e ser portadora de mensagens capazes de traduzir desejos de valorização, superação de condições concretas de existência e de emancipação de pessoas oprimidas, abre caminho para descentralizar os discursos conservadores que fomentaram, historicamente, estereótipos preconceituosos e invisibilizaram as identidades de indivíduos negros e as lutas para conquistar direitos historicamente negados. Consideramos que esta literatura histórica contemporânea e crítica é capaz de se converter em um poderoso mecanismo de luta em favor do reconhecimento social da raça negra, particularmente da mulher.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>: Literatura de mulheres negras - histórias de escravas - reconhecimento social de negras.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p class="abstract">The text describes and analyzes the work Um defeito de Cor (2006) by the Brazilian author Ana Maria Gonçalves, considered one of the most important books of 21st century Brazilian literature. The idea is to demonstrate, through the memories of Kahinde / Luisa, a black woman, ex-slave, blind and on the verge of death, how the current literature produced by Afro-descendant women writers, by translating into their works an original model of race and gender, allows us to explore history from a different angle than those models usually adopted in traditional literature, making possible new representations of value and overcoming biased and exclusionary stereotypes related to race and gender.  By transcending traditional narratives, carrying messages capable of translating desires for valorization and overcoming the concrete conditions of existence and emancipation of oppressed people, the literary work under analysis paves the way for decentralizing conservative discourses that historically fostered prejudiced stereotypes and made invisible the identities of black people and their struggles to conquer historically denied rights. We consider that this historical and critical literature can become a powerful mechanism of struggle in favor of the social recognition of the black race, particularly women.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Keywords</strong>: Black women literature - slave stories - black people - social recognition.</p>

scholarly journals A LITERATURA COMO MECANISMO DE LUTA PELO RECONHECIMENTO SOCIAL DE MULHERES NEGRAS NA OBRA UM DEFEITO DE COR

Afro-Ásia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Da Trindades Prestes ◽  
Emília Maria Da Trindade Prestes
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black People ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Social Recognition ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
De Se ◽  
Women Literature ◽  
And Gender

<p class="abstract">O texto descreve e analisa a obra <em>Um defeito de cor </em>(2006), da brasileira Ana Maria Gonçalves, considerado um dos livros mais importantes da literatura do século XXI. A ideia é demonstrar, por meio das memórias de Kahinde/Luísa, uma mulher negra, ex-escrava, cega e à beira da morte, como a atual literatura produzida por escritoras afrodescendentes, ao plasmar em suas obras um modelo original de raça e de gênero, permite explorar a história sob um ângulo diferente daquele usualmente adotado pela literatura tradicional, possibilitando novas representações valorativas e a superação de estereótipos preconceituosos e excludentes relacionados com raça e gênero. A obra em análise, por transcender as narrativas tradicionais e ser portadora de mensagens capazes de traduzir desejos de valorização, superação de condições concretas de existência e de emancipação de pessoas oprimidas, abre caminho para descentralizar os discursos conservadores que fomentaram, historicamente, estereótipos preconceituosos e invisibilizaram as identidades de indivíduos negros e as lutas para conquistar direitos historicamente negados. Consideramos que esta literatura histórica contemporânea e crítica é capaz de se converter em um poderoso mecanismo de luta em favor do reconhecimento social da raça negra, particularmente da mulher.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Palavras-chave</strong>: Literatura de mulheres negras - histórias de escravas - reconhecimento social de negras.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p class="abstract">The text describes and analyzes the work Um defeito de Cor (2006) by the Brazilian author Ana Maria Gonçalves, considered one of the most important books of 21st century Brazilian literature. The idea is to demonstrate, through the memories of Kahinde / Luisa, a black woman, ex-slave, blind and on the verge of death, how the current literature produced by Afro-descendant women writers, by translating into their works an original model of race and gender, allows us to explore history from a different angle than those models usually adopted in traditional literature, making possible new representations of value and overcoming biased and exclusionary stereotypes related to race and gender.  By transcending traditional narratives, carrying messages capable of translating desires for valorization and overcoming the concrete conditions of existence and emancipation of oppressed people, the literary work under analysis paves the way for decentralizing conservative discourses that historically fostered prejudiced stereotypes and made invisible the identities of black people and their struggles to conquer historically denied rights. We consider that this historical and critical literature can become a powerful mechanism of struggle in favor of the social recognition of the black race, particularly women.</p><p class="abstract"><strong>Keywords</strong>: Black women literature - slave stories - black people - social recognition.</p>

scholarly journals The intersectionality of religion, race and gender at the time of COVID-19 pandemic: A South African reflection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itumeleng D. Mothoagae ◽  
Azwihangwisi Mavhandu-Mudzusi
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Black People ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
And Gender

This paper presents the intersectionality of religion, race, and gender during the COVID-19 pandemic from a South African perspective. Though COVID-19 has affected every area in South Africa, the intersectionality of religion, race, gender class has begun to be interrogated by scholars, NGOs, and faith-based organizations. The interpretative phenomenological analysis study was conducted at a South African rural-based hospital, which is comprised of black personnel who serve only black people from impoverished villages. The data were collected from 11 nurses who had suffered from COVID-19. Following Pietkiewicz and Smith's (2014:7) steps of thematic data analysis, results indicated that nurses who suffered from COVID-19 had faced the dilemma of administering Western medicine or traditional African medicine. In other words, the universality of western medicine as effective and scientific created an epistemological dilemma for those that viewed traditional African medicine as an alternative to western medicine. As such, this was also necessitated by the view that Western medicinal treatments were not as effective in comparison to traditional African medicine. This view indicates the effectiveness of perception. Succinctly put, the social and epistemic locationof the participants functioned as an epistemological discourse in engaging the notion of the ‘supremacy’ of Western medicine and the choice of administering both Western and traditional medicinal treatments. The choice of opting to administer both medicinal treatments was also necessitated by the scarce resources and access to hospital facilities. At the same time, the notion that traditional administration of medicines to treat COVID-19 was also viewed as an act of heathenism, based on religious belief. The intersectionality of religion and class became evident as illustrated in the findings that surrendering one's life to God through prayer was important and central for those infected and affected by COVID-19 instead of administering traditional African medicines. While there appears to be no objection to administering Western medicines, suggesting the convergence of both epistemologies as superior to the traditional epistemologies. Applying a decolonial analysis, the paper seeks to argue that there is a need to decolonise religion (western Christianity) in order to deconstruct the notion of traditional epistemologies as heathenism. This is in order to the delink so as to advance the notion of pluriversality and broader-thinking.

THE SINS OF THE FATHER: GENDER- BASED VIOLENCE IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyn Snodgrass
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Black Women ◽  
South African ◽  
African Women ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
South African Women

This article explores the complexities of gender-based violence in post-apartheid South Africa and interrogates the socio-political issues at the intersection of class, ‘race’ and gender, which impact South African women. Gender equality is up against a powerful enemy in societies with strong patriarchal traditions such as South Africa, where women of all ‘races’ and cultures have been oppressed, exploited and kept in positions of subservience for generations. In South Africa, where sexism and racism intersect, black women as a group have suffered the major brunt of this discrimination and are at the receiving end of extreme violence. South Africa’s gender-based violence is fuelled historically by the ideologies of apartheid (racism) and patriarchy (sexism), which are symbiotically premised on systemic humiliation that devalues and debases whole groups of people and renders them inferior. It is further argued that the current neo-patriarchal backlash in South Africa foments and sustains the subjugation of women and casts them as both victims and perpetuators of pervasive patriarchal values.

Rewriting the Body: Aida Overton Walker and the Social Formation of Cakewalking

1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Krasner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
West African ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
Anna Julia Cooper ◽  
And Gender

Although Aida Overton Walker (1880–1914) belonged to the same generation of turn-of-the-century African American performers as did Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson, Bert Williams, and George Walker, she had a rather different view of how best to represent her race and gender in the performing arts. Walker taught white society in New York City how to do the Cakewalk, a celebratory dance with links to West African festival dance. In Walker's choreography of it, it was reconfigured with some ingenuity to accommodate race, gender, and class identities in an era in which all three were in flux. Her strategy depended on being flexible, on being able to make the transition from one cultural milieu to another, and on adjusting to new patterns of thinking. Walker had to elaborate her choreography as hybrid, merging her interpretation of cakewalking with the preconceptions of a white culture that became captivated by its form. To complicate matters, Walker's choreography developed during a particularly unstable and volatile period. As Anna Julia Cooper remarked in 1892.

Impoliteness in hip-hop music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panagiotis Delis
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
White Male ◽  
White Female ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
And Gender

Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine the functionality of impoliteness strategies as rhetorical devices employed by acclaimed African American and White hip-hop artists. It focuses on the social and artistic function of the key discursive element of hip-hop, namely aggressive language. The data for this paper comprise songs of US African American and White performers retrieved from the November 2017 ‘TOP100 Chart’ for international releases on Spotify.com. A cursory look at the sub-corpora (Black male/ Black female/ White male/ White female artists’ sub-corpus) revealed the prominence of the ‘use taboo words’ impoliteness strategy. The analysis of impoliteness instantiations by considering race and gender as determining factors in the lyrics selection process unveiled that both male groups use impoliteness strategies more frequently than female groups. It is also suggested that Black male and White female singers employ impoliteness to resist oppression, offer a counter-narrative about their own experience and self (re)presentation and reinforce in group solidarity.

scholarly journals The Role of the Church in Socio-Economic Transformation: Reformation as a Transformation Process

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leepo Johannes Modise
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Transformation Process ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Social ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
The Church

This paper consists of five parts. Firstly, a brief historical background of reformation will be discussed as an exercise to remember reformation. Secondly, we review the role of the ecumenical church (SACC) prior to democracy in South Africa. The purpose for focusing on the role of the church from this period is that it gives us a model to follow in our involvement in socio-economic transformation. Thirdly, the social and economic challenges facing the church and society in democratic South Africa will be discussed. Fourthly, we debate the role of the ecumenical church (SACC) in democratic South Africa. Fifthly, the article explores what role the Uniting Reformed Church in South Africa (URCSA) is playing (descriptive) and ought to play (normative) through all her structures to transform the socio-economic situation in South Africa.

scholarly journals Expert Information as an Evidence of Criminal Act of Corruption in Goods and Services Procurement

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
I Gusti Ayu Stefani Ratna Maharani
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Strong Base ◽  
The Public ◽  
Limited Knowledge ◽  
Expert Information ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

This research is focused to identify and analyze the role of the expert information as evidence in the case of corruption. One of the criminal acts of corruption that often occurs in the government is the criminal act of corruption in goods and services procurement, in which the perpetrators have abused the social aid fund from the government. There was the case of criminal act of corruption in goods and services procurement for social aid fund that occurred in Tabanan -Bali, which committed by I Wayan Sukaja, who had corrupted the State’s financial or social aid fund. Within the process of verification in the trial, the public prosecutors submit 2 (two) experts who provided information to assist in terms of verification. This study uses normative research methods. The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of expert information as evidence in criminal act of corruption. The role of an expert cannot be ignored because it will help the judges, prosecutors and lawyers who have limited knowledge. If the expert’s information is contrary, it could be ruled out by the judges but the expert’s information that excluded must be based on clear reason, and the judges must have strong base in assess the role of the expert’s information.

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