BLACK ACADEMIC VOICES, the South African experience

: Khunou (G.) et al (eds.)

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226pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2019

 

Personal accounts of black academics' experiences of exclusion, transformation and decolonisation at South African universities.

Contributions include:
"Black in the Academy: reframing knowledge, the knower, and knowing" by Grace Khunou, Hugo Canham, Katijah Khoza-Shangase and Edith Dinong Phaswana,
"Negotiating the Academy: black bodies 'out of place'" by Peace Kiguwa
"Thinking While Black" by Grace Musila
"Black and Foreign: negotiating being different in South Africa's academy" by Kezia Batisai
"Belonging: whose word is it anyway?" by René Koraan
"Belonging to Oneself" by Allison Geduld.

Grace Khunou is Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Johannesburg. She is the editor of The Emergent Middle Class (2015).
Hugo Canham teaches Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Katijah Khoza-Shangase is Associate Professor and former Head of Department in Speech Pathology and Audiology at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Edith Dinong Phaswana is Senior Lecturer at the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute at UNISA.