Stereotypical attitudes amongst black students at a rural historically black South African university

Mensele, Cebile; Nel, Kathryn; Nel, Elzabé; Louw, Larisa Alet

doi:10.1080/14330237.2015.1101281

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“…Nine years ago, a study by Mensele et al (2015) also reported that Coloured South Africans were described as 'impulsive, undisciplined, aggressive, with cultural crisis and lack identity' and my participants also related that similar stereotypes were used by South Africans to describe Coloured South Africans. The theoretical perspective of 'perpetual racial stereotyping', which I developed, conceptually captures this continuity in how Coloured South Africans have been racially stereotyped.…”

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“…Also viewed through a stereotype reproduction perspective, the ways in which Coloured South Africans are stereotyped negatively is a continuation of similar stereotypes prevalent during colonial and Apartheid times (Adhikari 2006;Mensele et al 2015). In other words, colonial and Apartheid discourses about Coloured people are being reproduced across generations into post-Apartheid South Africa (Mensele et al 2015). The concept of cultural transmission also best explains the cross-generational transmission of negative stereotypes about Coloured South Africans (Kline et al 2013;Scherger and Savage 2010).…”

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“…The participants disclosed that South Africans used degrading terms to represent Coloured people, and as Adhikari (2006) notes, the same dehumanising descriptions were used during Apartheid to characterise Coloured people. Even though the onset of democracy in 1994 removed Apartheid, its institutions, policies and laws and racist stereotypes about non-Whites still continue to dominate the social psychology of many South Africans, per Mensele et al (2015).…”

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“…White European settlers in South Africa had invented and popularised racist negative stereotyping not only about Coloured people, but also about the racialised Black and Indian South Africans which stereotypes are still well established and adopted as truisms among ordinary South Africans (Mensele et al 2015). The ways in which Coloured South Africans experienced negative racial stigmatisation in South Africa illustrates how entrenched and resilient negative discourses about non-Whites in South Africa have become.…”

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“…In a research article entitled, 'Stereotypical attitudes amongst black students at a rural historically black South Africa university', Mensele et al (2015) interviewed Black students about their perceptions of Whites, Blacks, Coloured and Indian South Africans and found that their participants stereotyped the four racial groupings in positive and negative terms (ibid., p. 479). Regarding their negative stereotyping of the racial groups, the researchers found that they perceived Black people as poor, uneducated, immature, impulsive, aggressive, lazy and loud (ibid., p. 479).…”

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Experiencing Negative Racial Stereotyping: The Case of Coloured People in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Scholars examining racial stereotyping and prejudice in racially organised social systems have largely focused on how non-White ethnic and racial groups experience racial stereotyping in White-majority national contexts such as the US, Australia and European countries. There is only scant scholarship on experiences of ethno-racial communities in Black-majority countries such as South Africa, a country where Whites are a minority. Even though there is ample scholarly work on racial stereotyping of racial groups in South Africa such as Coloured people, much of it is focused on their experiences during colonial and Apartheid eras. Little is understood about how Coloured people experience racial stigmatisation in post-Apartheid South Africa. This paper addresses this gap. Based on interviews with fourteen Coloured participants from Westbury, Johannesburg, this study found that many interviewees claimed that Coloured South Africans were negatively racially stereotyped as people who use drugs, as aggressive and violent people, as alcoholics and as criminals. Many participants also resisted and countered the negative stereotypes by talking about Coloured people in positive ways,which shows their agency. The negative stereotyping of Coloured people which prevailed during colonial and Apartheid times is still deployed by society to describe Coloured people in post-Apartheid South Africa. To capture the continuity of negative stereotyping in South Africa about Coloured people, I developed the analytical term of perpetual racial stereotyping. Many decades after the end of the Apartheid system, negative racial stereotyping of Coloured South Africans still continues in everyday life, and Coloured people are still associated with racist prejudices, narratives, discourses and stereotypes that were invented many decades ago by settler colonialism and Apartheid.

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This study explored black employees" experiences of racial profiling by their white peers through the medium of gossip at a historically white South African university. Participants consisted of 24 black employees (males = 50%, females = 50%; support staff = 50%, academic staff = 50%). The employees completed a semi-structured interview that elicited their perceptions of the settings in which gossip about black employees occurred, the perceived intentions of such gossip, and their responses to it. The data obtained was thematically analysed. Findings suggested that the gossip targeted black employees who were absent from meetings, and that such gossip undermined the work performance and morale of these employees.

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“Breaking the cycle”: Black adolescents’ experiences of being stereotyped during identity development

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Stereotypical attitudes amongst black students at a rural historically black South African university

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Experiencing Negative Racial Stereotyping: The Case of Coloured People in Johannesburg, South Africa

Experiencing Negative Racial Stereotyping: The Case of Coloured People in Johannesburg, South Africa

‘Shh … quiet! Here they come.’ Black employees as targets of office gossip

“Breaking the cycle”: Black adolescents’ experiences of being stereotyped during identity development

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