Relations with Nonaligned Nations in Asia and
                    Africa

Rakove, Robert B.

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“…As Rakove (2013) notes, the nations have even shared close alliances in the past. During the Cold War, apartheid-era SA played a key role to the US as an anti-Communist ally in the region, and the US was historically sympathetic to SA: 'another independent-minded settler nation.…”

Section: Experiencing the Uncanny In South Africamentioning

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“…Americans had cheered the Afrikaners against the British during the Boer War. Southern defenders of segregation saw apartheid as an analogous program’ (Rakove, 2013: 320). This close relationship only changed when it was no longer politically advisable for the US to support apartheid, and again when SA's first democratically elected president, Mandela, raised concerns for the US government because of his apartheid-era connections with the SA Communist Party and his ongoing dialogues with prominent Communist leaders, like Fidel Castro (Rakove, 2013).…”

Section: Experiencing the Uncanny In South Africamentioning

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Brothers from another mother: Seeing the uncanny in US popular media depictions of South Africa

Merwe

2022

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article examines a pattern of popular US audiovisual media depictions of post-apartheid South Africa, which portray SA as harbouring latent danger. I use these depictions as an entry point into a broader web of articulation that connects various theoretical lenses (including Othering and theories of fear), empirical data, and historical context in order to tell a conjunctural story about the precarity of US exceptionalism and Whiteness. Rather than reading these depictions as a suggestion that SA is a tangible threat of danger to the world, I argue that the strategic formation of these depictions reveals how the US experiences the uncanny (familiar unfamiliar) in SA, another significantly White settler-colonial state, and thus perceives a discursive threat of SA democracy to US exceptionalism on the global stage. This conjuncture, I suggest, reveals a discursive struggle over multicultural global futures and who gets to define democracy in the popular imagination.

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Section: Experiencing the Uncanny In South Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Experiencing the Uncanny In South Africamentioning

confidence: 99%