PERSISTENCE OF RACE

182pp., paperback, Sun Press & STIAS, Stellenbosch, 2019

ISBN: 9781928480440

A collection of essays that emerged from in-depth discussions on the research theme Being Human Today, convened by evolutionary anthropologist Nina Jablonksi and sociologist Gerhard Maré at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in 2015. The group included Nina Jablonksi, Njabulo Ndebele, Chabani Manganyi, Barney Pityana, Crain Soudien, Göran Therborn, Mikael Hjerm, Zimitri Erasmus and George Chaplin.

Contributions include:

"Racism's workshop: Explaining prejudice and hate" by Crain Soudien

"Ways of being: 'Race' as common sense: non-racialism as humanist necessity" by Gerhard Maré

"'Who was here first?', or 'Who lives here now?': Indigeneity, a difference like no other" by Zimitri Erasmus

"South Africa beyond 'non-racialism'" by Njabulo Ndebele.

Nina Jablonski is the Evan Pugh University Professor of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University and Fellow of STIAS.