Harare Review of Books

Here’s a very interesting academic article you can find on JSTOR (and other places *cough cough* online). I had a good think while reading it about the construction of whiteness (one of my favourite subjects); about newer forms of “passing” (like how we code-switch in certain situations — changing your accent when booking a B&B in Cape Town or when looking for a place to rent in Bulawayo, etc — and, incidentally, how you dress differently when you’re going to be around black people 😅); about, again, how the construction of whiteness is properly the construction of non-whiteness.

Highly recommend finding this and reading it if you want to further your understanding of race relations, which have not progressed very much in the last 200 years, no matter what it looks like (– there’s truth in hyperbole). Also amazingly excellent for an article written almost 3 decades ago?

My Twitter thread here.

There are a few articles online about this article; will update this post with links to any good ones I find.