A subtle kind of racism | News24 - 0 views
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The real, and much deeper, problem is how a multiplicity of institutional practices, which are not motivated by malice or prejudice, are felt by black people at UCT. A host of everyday practices on campus are experienced by many black students and staff as discriminatory and seen to perpetuate racial stereotypes of superiority and inferiority.
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American activist Kwame Toure – perhaps more widely remembered as Stokely Carmichael – described institutional racism as more subtle than individual racism and much more obvious to those on the receiving end than it is to those responsible for perpetuating it.
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Beyond any doubt, the photographers involved – Peter Magubane, David Goldblatt, Paul Weinberg, Omar Badsha – intended them as ammunition in the struggle against apartheid. But if you are a black student born well after 1994 what you see is a parade of black people stripped of their dignity and whites exuding wealth and success. Even if you know the historic context of the photos, a powerful contemporary context may overwhelm this, leading you to conclude that the photos are just one more indication of how this university views black and white people.
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